New Moon – IBM Print Ad from National Geographic Magazine circa late 1950s.
The Vanguard Project was the US response to the Soviet’s Sputnik. The USSR was able to put two functioning satellites into low earth orbit before the US launched it’s first successful Explorer 1 satellite in 1958. Vanguard 1 was successfully placed in low earth orbit on March 17, 1958. IBM’s 704 Computer was introduced in 1954 and was regarded as the only existing computer that could handle complex math at the time.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_Vanguard
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM_704
scanned from original magazine tear sheet / 600 dpi