Launch of Explorer 1, First U.S. Satellite onboard a Jupiter C Rocket, which was a modified Redstone. The Redstone is what Alan Sheppard and Gus Grissom rode to orbit.
For the Delta 4 Heavy, the bottom line is its ability to place 23,000 kilograms into low Earth orbit, and 13,100 kg into geosynchronous transfer orbit. This guy rivals the Saturn 1B.
Polaris missile loaded from truck to sub at Cape Canaveral, missile hatches opened on USS George Washington, missile fired 1100 miles to its target, then 2nd missile fired.
This movie is compiled of images from Phoenix's Stereo Surface Imager (SSI) camera that were taken on sols 1 and 3. The top images, highlighted in yellow at the beginning of the movie, have been stretched eight times to show details of features in the background. Phoenix's parachute, backshell, heatshield, and impact site can also be seen.
This movie shows the vast plains of the northern polar region of Mars, as seen by NASA's Phoenix Mars Lander shortly after touching down on the Red Planet.
