Using tongs, Jim Moran sticks a long, thin piece of wire into the small but very hot fire of the blacksmith’s forge.
When he removes the metal, the tip is white hot.
The three men responsible for the success of Explorer 1, America's first satellite, launched Jan. 31, 1958: from left, JPL director William H. Pickering, James Van Allen and Wernher von Braun.
