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.
36 S ocietaL i mpact oF S paceFLight apollo Finally, there are events that were hailed at the time as turning points in history and accepted as such by virtually everyone,but which now invite reconsideration.the most obvious that i would point to is the apollo 11 landing on the moon on 20 July 1969.