The initial launch in late 1960 was also the first live Nike Hercules test ever conducted adjacent to a metropolitan area.

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(The Conversation is an independent and nonprofit source of news, analysis and commentary from academic experts.) Renata Keller, University of Nevada, Reno (THE CONVERSATION) Sixty-three years ago, ...