{"id":52,"date":"2025-04-20T19:56:54","date_gmt":"2025-04-20T19:56:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vostok6.com\/?p=52"},"modified":"2025-04-20T20:00:55","modified_gmt":"2025-04-20T20:00:55","slug":"new-moon-ibm-print-ad-1950s","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vostok6.com\/index.php\/2025\/04\/20\/new-moon-ibm-print-ad-1950s\/","title":{"rendered":"New Moon &#8211; IBM Print Ad &#8211; 1950s"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>New Moon &#8211; IBM Print Ad from National Geographic Magazine circa late 1950s.<\/p>\n<p>The Vanguard Project was the US response to the Soviet&#8217;s Sputnik. The USSR was able to put two functioning satellites into low earth orbit before the US launched it&#8217;s first successful Explorer 1 satellite in 1958. Vanguard 1 was successfully placed in low earth orbit on March 17, 1958. IBM&#8217;s 704 Computer was introduced in 1954 and was regarded as the only existing computer that could handle complex math at the time.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Project_Vanguard\">https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Project_Vanguard<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/IBM_704\">https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/IBM_704<\/a><\/p>\n<p>scanned from original magazine tear sheet \/ 600 dpi<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New Moon &#8211; IBM Print Ad from National Geographic Magazine circa late 1950s. The Vanguard Project was the US response to the Soviet&#8217;s Sputnik. The USSR was able to put two functioning satellites into low earth orbit before the US launched it&#8217;s first successful Explorer 1 satellite in 1958. Vanguard 1 was successfully placed in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":55,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[18,21,19,17],"class_list":["post-52","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-ads","tag-national-geographic","tag-print","tag-space"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vostok6.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vostok6.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vostok6.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vostok6.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vostok6.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=52"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/vostok6.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":59,"href":"https:\/\/vostok6.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52\/revisions\/59"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vostok6.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/55"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vostok6.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=52"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vostok6.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=52"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vostok6.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=52"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}