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Vanguard II was the first big success for the National Aeronautics and Space Administration. Encouraged and confident, NASA outlined to Congress its ambitious program for peaceful space navigation. Some of its projects: ¶ An Atlas with a single upper stage to put a 3,000-lb. satellite in orbit (available soon...
...Command bombers and a slender intercontinental missile program, Air Force missilemen turned up in Washington last week with a warning and a plan. The warning: reliance on plane-borne SAC will not surely give the U.S. the deterrent it needs. The plan: step up production of the well-tested Atlas missile. See NATIONAL AFFAIRS, Atlas...
...period when the U.S., by Defense Secretary Neil McElroy's estimate, will be outgunned 3 to 1 by the Communists in intercontinental ballistic missiles. The new proposal: double the U.S.'s planned production of ICBMs by mid-1963. Planning now calls for the deployment of 90 Atlas ICBMs and 110 Titan ICBMs in 20 squadrons of ten missiles apiece by mid-1963. The U.S., under the new proposal, would add 200 more Atlas ICBMs to the buildup. Cost over four years: about $2.5 billion, with a relatively small $500 million to come out of the fiscal 1960 budget...
...hearings of the Senate Preparedness Subcommittee (TIME, Feb. 9). The Administration's thesis: 1) the U.S. will get through the missile gap of the early 1960s with a "diversified" deterrent of manned thermonuclear bombers, Navy carriers and missile-firing nuclear submarines, plus a slowly growing, minimum force of Atlas and Titan ICBMs and the medium-range ballistic missile Thor; 2) the U.S. will close the gap around 1964 to the U.S.S.R.'s disadvantage when the Air Force deploys its "second-generation" solid-fuel Minuteman ICBM in hundreds of underground silos as the missile age's first true...
...Canaveral last week, roared up 50 miles or so through a long-awaited break in the grey overcast, plopped its no tons into the warm Atlantic 300 miles downrange (maximum hoped-for range: 9,000 miles). The U.S.'s first successful firing of a second-generation ICBM (after Atlas) brought cheers from airmen and Titan's Martin Co. crew, weary from a two-month fight against the gremlins that unaccountably popped its umbilical cord and played other tricks on five previous countdowns. Since two previous firing fizzles took place on the launching pad, the crewmen could even boast...