Remembering the Space Age. - Black Vault Radio Network (BVRN)

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Vanguard One Explosion at Cape Canaveral, Florida: December 6, 1957. (NASA)
would become immediate archetypes for those recording the exploits of future
space exploration. these iconic images (and others that also eventually emerged)
have had a profound impact on american culture, and the adaptation of american
scientifc and technological culture abroad. 4
4. for a greater understanding on the association between space exploration and the american
culture’s space policy and history, see howard McCurdy’s Space and the American Imagination
(Smithsonian Institution, 1997).