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On December 6 1957 the United States made its first attempt to launch a satellite which ended in a fiery explosion on the Cape Canaveral launch pad The Vanguard TV3 rocket was meant to counter Soviet Sputnik successes but it rose only four feet before losing thrust and exploding in a massive fireball The media dubbed it Kaputnik and Flopnik and the failure forced a change in strategy that led to the US Army program launching Explorer 1 on January 31 1958 and marking a turning point in the space

Over 1,600 years old, this drum is attributed to the Nasca culture of the South Coast of Peru. It is made of ceramic with slip paint and features a modeled figure with snakes and a hornlike headband projection. It measures 45.1 cm × 25.4 cm (17 3/4 × 10 in). This artifact is now housed at The Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City, New York, United States. It was formerly in the collection of Pablo Soldi until 1957, then Raymond and Laura Wielgus until 1964, and entered The Museum of Primit

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