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[i]The launch of the Vanguard was scheduled for December 6, 1957. A huge crowd of people gathered at observation points around Cape Canaveral and television brought the first major live coverage of a space flight event to millions of American households. It was the day when American national pride was to be restored. What followed is engraved deep in the national memory to this day. The rocket's power plant ignited and the Vanguard slowly rose about a yard from the launch pad. Then it fell back onto the pad and detonated in an enormous explosion before the eyes of the entire nation. America collectively sank into a state of shock.[/i]
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