NASA. Perfect lift-off for the "Jupiter C Explorer" rocket o - Lot 10

NASA. Perfect lift-off for the "Jupiter C Explorer" rocket on July 26, 1958 from the military missile launch pad at Cape Canaveral. Jupiter-C, whose full name is Jupiter Composite Reentry Test Vehicle, is an American research and development rocket of the Redstone family, derived from the Jupiter-A with the addition of a solid propellant stage from the MGM-29 Sergeant missile, for testing nuclear warheads during atmospheric reentry, of the PGM-19 Jupiter intermediate-range ballistic missile. Jupiter-C will be converted into a space launcher and renamed Juno I, for the launch of the first American Explorer satellites. German engineer Wernher von Braun's teams developed this missile, which was abandoned by the Americans in the space race in favor of the Vanguard missile by President Eisenhower because of the Nazi past of the Jupiter-C Explorer designers, who were preparing the "Redstone" project. After the bitter failure of the Vanguard program, German engineers finally took charge of the destiny of the American space program, which triumphed only a decade later with the Apollo 11 mission and its Saturn V rocket designed under the direction of Wernher Von Braun.vintage silver print. Typed caption on back. 25.4 x 20.4CM with margins.