Army Ordnance Satellite Program

The following 82 pages contain high points of Army Ordnance satellite history, beginning with scientists Hermann Oberth and Robert Goddard after World War I. Still to be written is a detailed, technical account. However, a long and helpful step in this direction is this history's contemporary, called Explorers In Orbit, a technically oriented study prepared by Vitro Engineering Company for the Army Ballistic Missile Agency. The Development Operations Division, ABMA, as well as the ABMA Historical Section have copies of this Vitro Study on file.