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A photograph by Clark Van Orden and words by Chris Ritchie

More than a half-century ago, all eyes turned to the October sky, where a small, beeping object captured the fascination of our nation, including a West Virginia coal-miner’s son who would one day grow up to design rockets that reached beyond our wildest dreams.

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