Launch vehicles built and flown by United States government and government-contracted programs, from the early Redstone and Atlas boosters through the Saturn family to the modern Space Launch System, spanning the full history of American orbital and lunar launch capability outside private commercial ventures, which are grouped separately below.
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1. Wikipedia: Explorer 1
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Explorer 1 was launched on 1 February 1958 at 03:47:56 GMT (or 31 January 1958 at 22:47:56 Eastern Time) atop the first Juno I booster from LC-26A at the Cape Canaveral Missile Test Center of the Atlantic Missile Range (AMR), in Florida.
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