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Army's Explorer
Bears Name Of
Earlier Research
Craft
TTie Army’s earth-circling “Explorer," in purpose and in name, carried on a dazzling tradition of conquering the high unknown.
The name of the first American satellite, launched by rocket from Cape Canaveral, Florida, was chosen by President Eisenhower from a list of suggestions submit; ted by the Army. . „ ■ * Hrs selection &as fitting. The satellite’s historic antecedents—in name—^were high-altitude research c> aft associated with the United States military. ' * In die mid-1930’s, the Army Air Corps and the National Geographic Society joined forces to Tend instruments and observers to £Re top of the earth’s atmosphere ■
Exfiwrer II Sets Rerord ■ ?;
E'anlrfyer 1, a huge balloon inflated wrth hydrogen, rose above the Hack Hills of South Dakota on July 28. 1934, with Captain Albert W. Stevens. Cantain Orvil A. Anderson, and Major William F. kroner. Thc vehicle1 reached 60,613 feet before a sudden'rip brought it down.
On Armlst’ce Day,-1935. “Explorer II” lifted” gently from the Rtratobowl near Rapid City* South Dakota.. Cramped in a gondola beneath the biggest balloon ever built* Stevens and Anderson soared to a record-shattering height of 72. 395 feet.
For ah -hour and 40 minutes they dangled piore than 13 miles -hove the earth—higher thanv6ap had-e,-er risen before. . ' 51
| Millions of Americans huddled ' about- rados. listening to the faint voieds of* the two men* just as present-day observers have maintained art alert for 'radio signals of the Russian and American satellites.
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