SCORE - The Worlds First Communications Satellite... (if you squint while looking at it)

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The 18th of December 2018 is clearly cursed as Launchapalooza has become Scrubapalooza, but today also marks the 60th Anniversary of the first Atlas rocket to go to orbit, carrying SCORE. Some people call this the first communications satellite, others realise that it's real job was to comminicate to the world that the USA had developed ICBM's able to go anywhere on the globe.



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