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Navy Reenters Vanguard Space Race For Orbit
With America's first satellite spinning in orbit the Navy moves to relaunch Vanguard. The article notes earlier Cape Canaveral failures and Jupiter C success, outlining how the Vanguard program under Naval Research Laboratory aims to orbit six Long-Playing Rockets as part of the International Geophysical Year efforts and near term 1958 moon flight.
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