Counting Down to Apollo — A Personal Record of the Space Race — Est. 1962

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Technology April 1, 1960

TIROS 1 — The Weather Eye

The first weather satellite launched yesterday. TIROS 1 is photographing cloud cover from orbit and transmitting the images back to Earth. This changes weather forecasting.

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Counting Down to Apollo — A personal account of the Apollo program. All NASA photographs are in the public domain.

“We choose to go to the Moon in this decade and do the other things, not because they are easy, but because they are hard.” — JFK, 1962

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