page_title: 1957 in the United States
section_title: December
hierarchical_section_title: 1957 in the United States / Events / December
caption_attribution_description: English: Photograph of the Shippingport Atomic Power Station in Shippingport, Pennsylvania, the first full-scale nuclear power generating station in the United States which began operating in 1957.
context_page_description: Events from the year 1957 in the United States.
context_section_description: December 2 – Shippingport Atomic Power Station goes onstream; commercial operation begins on May 26, 1958.
  December 6 – Vanguard TV3, the first U.S. attempt to launch a satellite, fails with the rocket blowing up on the launch pad.
  December 19 – Meredith Willson's classic musical The Music Man, starring Robert Preston, debuts on Broadway.
  December 20 – The Boeing 707 airliner flies for the first time.
  December 22 – The CBS afternoon anthology series The Seven Lively Arts presents Tchaikovsky's ballet The Nutcracker on U.S. television for the first time.
caption: December 2: Shippingport Reactor goes online
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