[FPSPACE] The first Moon race kicked off 50 years ago - Sunday

[Jim Oberg]

I remember the launch announcement as a news bulletin on our car radio,
as we headed off on some vacation trip. It was only an hour later when a
follow-on bulletin described how it had exploded after 77 seconds.



----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Sven Grahn" <svengrahn at telia.com>
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Sent: Friday, August 15, 2008 11:25 AM
Subject: [FPSPACE] The first Moon race kicked off 50 years ago - Sunday


> On August 17, 1958, the USAF launched the first Moon probe on a Thor-Able 
> rocket. It did not get far- exploded after 77 seconds. But this launch 
> kicked of  the first race to the Moon, the unpiloted version. It 
> culminated a little more than a year later with Luna-2 hitting the Moon 
> and Luna-3 taking pictures of the hidden side.
>
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