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Statement by the President: Launching of Vanguard Test Satellite.

March 17, 1958

I HAVE just been informed by Dr. Alan Waterman, Director of the National Science foundation, that a small test vehicle has been placed in orbit around the earth by the Vanguard rocket.

The orbiting is part of a series of tests which will be conducted prior to the launching of Vanguard satellites as part of the United States participation in International Geophysical Year.

Dwight D. Eisenhower, Statement by the President: Launching of Vanguard Test Satellite. Online by Gerhard Peters and John T. Woolley, The American Presidency Project https://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/node/234538

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