NASA Lot n° 7

NASA. Perfect liftoff for the "Jupiter C Explorer" rocket on July 26, 1958 from the Cape Canaveral military missile launch pad. Jupiter-C, whose full name is Jupiter Composite Reentry Test Vehicle, is an American research and development rocket of the Redstone family, derived from the Jupiter-A with the addition of solid propellant stages from the MGM-29 Sergeant missile, for testing nuclear warheads during atmospheric reentry, of the PGM-19 Jupiter intermediate range ballistic missile. Jupiter-C will be reconverted as a space launcher and renamed Juno I, to send the first American Explorer satellites. Those are the teams of the German engineer Wernher von Braun which developed this missile which was forsaken by the Americans in the race to Space with the profit of the Vanguard missile by President Eisenhower because of the Nazi past of the designers of Jupier C Explorer which prepared the project "Redstone". After the failure of the Vanguard program, it is finally the German engineers who took in hand the destiny of the American space program which triumphed only ten years later with the Apollo 11 mission and its Saturn V rocket conceived under the direction of Wernher Von Braun.silver print of the period. Typed caption on the back. 25,4 x 20,4CM with margins.