Vanguard SLV-5

Vanguard SLV-5, launched on 14 April 1959, was an unsuccessful launch of a Project Vanguard satellite. It was to have been the third successful flight of the American Vanguard rocket following the successful Vanguard 2 satellite on rocket Vanguard SLV-4; however, a second-stage booster failure caused the rocket and payload to instead crash into the Atlantic Ocean.

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