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...Hangar C in the Snark compound, a bus disgorges a squad of Strategic Air Command trainees assigned to study the air-breathing missile. Another group runs a test on an 80-ft.-high telemetry antenna whose dish spreads 60 ft. wide. At the Cape fire station, the crew gets a lecture in handling fires that might break out in the unearthly, exotic fuels. In a grey and silver building, one man takes charge of 53 spools of colored wire used to maintain the big IBM 704 impact predictor computer. On the launching pads, workers clamber along the service-tower catwalks...
...Kraus was familiar with this effect, so when Sputnik I took to space, he went after it, antenna pointing like a hunter zeroing in on a duck. The satellite, moving at near meteor speed, and much bigger than common meteors, performed magnificently, leaving an ionized trail at each night passage. The trail reflected the time signal strongly for as much as a minute. The bursts of reflected waves came from just the right places and at just the right times to fit the satellite's slowly shifting orbit...
...most powerful (in military trim, each develops 20,000 Ibs. of thrust, 25% greater than any U.S. or British engine in production), but are so fuel thirsty that no nonsubsidized airline could operate the planes at a profit. Some of the radio equipment, including an obsolete, ice-catching clothesline antenna, is far below U.S. standards. Outside, riveting on the plane's skin was inferior. The galley had ornate wood paneling, but no refrigeration...
...seconds while the rocket's fuel was still burning, its own telemetering equipment sent radio reports to earth, but when the fuel was gone and the rocket had climbed above most of the atmosphere, its main transmitter piped down. An automatic device took charge, poked a retractable antenna into the near vacuum, and told the instruments in the can to go on the air. The satellite transmitter took over and reported in code the readings of the satellite instruments, including such space esoterica as the impacts of primary cosmic rays and micrometeorites. It will take a long time...
Bloop to Blurp. With some bush jackets, high boots, a helicopter, a CBS engineer, a LIFE photographer and correspondent, four guns, two of "the very latest" single sideband 1,000-watt transmitters, a rotary antenna, a truck, a jeep, a DC-3, generators, an electric refrigerator, eleven other white men and 48 natives, Godfrey and SAC's General Curtis LeMay trekked through the jungle for four perilous weeks. By last week White Hunter Godfrey had bagged a water buffalo, an elephant (with one shot), a hippo and a leopard. "I'm completely exhausted," he confided by phone...