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...experience in the actual practice of cold war on both its fighting and its psychological fronts. The Army put up the U.S.'s first Explorer space satellites. The Air Force sent a lunar-probe rocket 80,000 miles toward the moon, at year's end fired one Atlas intercontinental missile 4,000 miles, another the full distance of 6,300 miles, still another into orbit, brought the Thor IRBM into the training stage and the hands of combat troops. The Navy sent the nuclear submarine Nautilus under the North Pole, made huge psychological warfare headlines, opened...
...rivalries of different services whose planners and dreamers demand a separate piece of the wild-blue-yonder projects. The Air Force, for example, got miffed at ARPA when ARPA's Johnny-come-lately Boss Roy Johnson took much of the credit for the successful launching of the orbiting Atlas (TIME, Dec. 29), which, after all, was an Air Force ICBM...
...safely to earth. Although much of the hardware for the shoot has been developed and proved, scientists are still working on the development of new metallurgy and better tracking and recovery systems. Pushing the capsule-enclosed man into space will be the job of the Air Force's Atlas (another 20 or 30 Atlas shoots must be made before the missile can be considered thoroughly reliable). Who will be the first orbiting man? NASA will carefully choose a team of volunteers, all of whom will get similar training. As the big day approaches, the first man will be selected...
...Russians start a colony on the moon. "I just don't understand how they got there," President Eisenhower says. The United States sends up an Atlas missile with a tape-recording of Christmas carols. The Russians send up a rocket which plays the "Internationale." Batten, Barton, Durstine & Osborn send up a rocket which broadcasts Pepsi commercials. The Cambridge parking situation is alleviated by sending Al Vellucci up in a rocket. Dean Sherman Adams reports that he is taking the proposal that typing be permitted on final examinations under advisement...
...more than a day the Atlas stayed too far from the U.S. for further experiments. Then it passed near a tracking station in California, which first tried to extract from it a second broadcast of Eisenhower's voice. The satellite tried to comply, but reception was poor. The station then radioed a signal that told the satellite to record a fresh message. The satellite obeyed, making a tape of a Teletype version of President Eisenhower's message. As it swept eastward at 17,000 m.p.h., a station in Texas gave it the playback signal. Down from space came...