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From the launch of Sputnik to international agreements and global collaborations, a lot of positive impacts came from the International Geophysical Year socially, politically, and especially scientifically.
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Columbia Professor of Geology Rhodes W. Fairbridge and Columbia President Dr. Grayson Kirk inspect an inflatable globe that represented the IGY in 1958.
Image Credit: Columbia University’s Geology Library
American and Soviet scientists in the Antarctic.
Image Credit: Photo by Alexander Maksimov
Director of the Jet Propulsion Laboratory William H. Pickering, physicist James A. Van Allen, and rocket designer Wernher von Braun hold a model of Explorer 1 during a post launch press conference.
Image Credit: Courtesy NASA/JPL
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