This is silent, unedited footage of a celebration held in downtown Huntsville, Alabama, on March 10, 1959 for another Army achievement in space. On March 3, 1959, PIONEER IV, the second Army vehicle (a Juno II) to carry a NASA lunar probe experiment, was launched at the Atlantic Missile Range at 0011 hours Eastern Standard Time (EST). A joint Army Ballistic Missile Agency/Jet Propulsion Laboratory project under the direction of NASA, it achieved a velocity in excess of 24,560 miles per hour; passed within about 36,000 miles of the moon; and traveled on to become the first U.S. satellite in permanent orbit around the sun. Radio contact with PIONEER IV was maintained to a record distance of 406,620 miles.