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Child observes SLV-5 rocket. It was located near the Citizens National Bank, North Park Branch, probably on or near First Ave. Vanguard SLV-5, also called Vanguard Satellite Launch Vehicle-Five hoped to be the third successful flight of the American Vanguard rocket following the successful Vanguard 2 satellite on rocket Vanguard SLV-4. Vanguard SLV-5 launched on 14 April 1959 at 02:49 GMT, from Launch Complex 18A at the Cape Canaveral Air Force Station. A momentary delay in first stage separation caused the second stage engine to ignite while still attached to the first stage. Pressure from the engine exhaust pushed the thrust chamber to the limit of the gimbal stops, breaking them and causing loss of attitude control in flight. The second stage tumbled and the resultant forces caused a premature separation of the third stage and payload. Data was received from them until impact in the Atlantic Ocean eight minutes after liftoff. Vanguard SLV-5 hoped to put into orbit two satellites: the Vanguard 3A satellite, a magnetometer, and a 76 cm (30 in) round inflatable sphere with an air density measurement device. Vanguard SLV-5 only reached an altitude of 100 km (62 mi), the goal was 3,840 km (2,390 mi) to orbit. Looking at the words on the rocket carrier led to this information from NASA, The Titan Transtage, an upper stage of the Titan III rocket family, arrived at NASAs Johnson Space Center May 26 [2016], where it will be studied by scientists in the Orbital Debris Program Office (ODPO) to obtain information to complete forensics that will help us understand why things break up in space. Developed in the 1960s to lift heavy payloads, or multiple small payloads, to specific locations in low-Earth orbit (LEO) and Geosynchronous Earth Orbit (GEO), the Transtage was the worlds first, space tug, capable of multiple restarts of its engine and could deliver multiple spacecraft to precise orbits in a single mission.