The US launched Explorer 1 in 1958
Explorer 1 was in orbit for 111 days after launch on January 2 1958. I make that to be May 4, 1958.
it launched in the year of 1958.
EXPLORER 1, launched in February 1958, a desperate response to the 1957 Russian launch of Sputnik 1.
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The first rocket the US sent up into space was the Jupiter C launch vehicle and its payload was Explorer 1 the first American Satellite.
IE 10 was initially released on August 1, 2012.
The USSR launched Sputnik on October 4th, 1957 and Explorer 1 was launched on January 31st, 1958--so the answer is 119 days.
Sputnik 1 was the first Earth-orbiting artificial satellite. It was launched into an elliptical low Earth orbit by the Soviet Union on 4 October 1957.
Explorer Eight in 1960
EXPLORER 1!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
No. The USSR was the first to launch any kind of space craft with the launch of "Sputnik 1" in 1957. The US was the first to send a man to the moon in 1969 with the Apollo 11 mission
America's first satellite launched into outer space was called the Explorer 1, and was launched in 1958.