December 12
Posted in White History on Dec 12th, 2010
1961 OSCAR 1, the first satellite built by private citizens, was launched on a Thor-Agena rocket from the Vandenberg Air Force Base, California, just four years after the launch of world’s first satellite, Sputnik. OSCAR (“Orbiting Satellite Carrying Amateur Radio”) was designed and hand-built by San Francisco Bay area radio enthusiasts and made 312 orbits [...]