Explorer

Week of Feb. 10, 1958
The U.S. sheds any lingering humiliation over being beaten to space by Russia's Sputnik I satellite, launching Explorer, a scientific earth satellite. TIME correspondents in 22 American cities report citizen reaction as, "It's about time."

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