{"id":255,"date":"2009-02-28T13:53:38","date_gmt":"2009-02-28T18:53:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost\/wordpress65\/?p=255"},"modified":"2013-02-12T05:55:34","modified_gmt":"2013-02-12T10:55:34","slug":"space-history-repeats-again-and-again","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.grayrinehart.com\/blog\/space-history-repeats-again-and-again\/","title":{"rendered":"Space History (That Repeats Again and Again)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Fifty years ago today &#8212; February 28, 1959 &#8212; the Discoverer-1 satellite was launched by a Thor Agena rocket from Vandenberg AFB. It was the first joint U.S. Air Force\/Advanced Research Projects Agency launch of a reconnaissance satellite &#8212; what would eventually become the CORONA satellite program. <\/p>\n<p>Unfortunately, the Agena upper stage apparently malfunctioned and the satellite is believed to have landed near the South Pole. 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