The base of the jovial groove as the little group walked was a lilting, repeating riff on the kora, the 21-string harp-lute that a musician played with its base propped against his torso, plucking with his thumbs. â
The Vanguard team was still working on a test vehicle (TV-2) designed to test the first stage of the rocket when they learned of the launch of the world's first artificial satellite, Sputnik I, by the USSR on October 4, 1957. On December 2, the Department of Defense announced the imminent launch of TV-3.
Launch of the Armada. The Armada was further delayed in 1588 and its 122 ships did not arrive off Land's End until late July. Parma, the latest Spanish research has revealed, had given up hope of its arrival and had sent the crews of his own ships to work on canals inland.