Satellite A Bust. Rocket Blows Up In First U.S (1957)
1957 · Newsreel · 4 min
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(1) Vanguard explodes during launch of Explorer satellite (2) British train accident due to London fog (3) Amsterdam aquarium has sea horse, coral fish, lobster, eel (4) town in Georgia is leveled by gas explosion, town of Villarica (5) new Dutch ramjet helicopter demonstrated, rotor tips flame at night, looking like flying saucer (partial newsreel).
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error in description · troymc · 2011-01-25
"Vanguard explodes during launch of Explorer satellite" The Naval project Vanguard launched the Vanguard series of satellites - not the Explorers (which were launched by the Army's competing Explorer project.) This error is not in the newsreel which details the Vanguard TV-3 failure.