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From: jmc@DEC-Lite.Stanford.EDU (John McCarthy)
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Subject: Re: IGY and the dawn of the Space Age
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In-Reply-To: dodson@convex.COM's message of 18 Jun 91 17:13:37 GMT

I indeed errored in writing Explorer instead of Vanguard.  The error
was especially bad, since Explore was the name of the von Braun
project.
--
John McCarthy


"The people of the antipodes, gazing at the moon when for us it is only
a small crescent, remark, 'What a splendid brightness!  It's nearly full
moon'" - Stendhal, Memoirs of an Egotist