Jim Richards holds his homemade satellite, October 1958
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Ann Arbor News, October 31, 1958
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BUILDS SATELLITE: Jim Richards, 18, of 2482 Carpenter Rd., a senior at Ann Arbor High School, holds a 48-inch, 4-pound satellite he built in his home workshop. In his left hand are two experimental nose cones and a rocket fuel cylinder to project the satellite from the main rocket body. The instrument is equipped to send temperature data from the upper atmosphere back to earth.
Ann Arbor News, October 31, 1958
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BUILDS SATELLITE: Jim Richards, 18, of 2482 Carpenter Rd., a senior at Ann Arbor High School, holds a 48-inch, 4-pound satellite he built in his home workshop. In his left hand are two experimental nose cones and a rocket fuel cylinder to project the satellite from the main rocket body. The instrument is equipped to send temperature data from the upper atmosphere back to earth.
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1958
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October
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