Word: caped
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...with old V-25, moved no closer to space. The Korean war changed that: in 1950 the German scientists were rushed bag and baggage to Huntsville (see box) with orders to build the Army a long-range missile with nuclear-payload capability. Result: the Redstone missile, successfully launched at Cape Canaveral...
...Sept. 20, 1956, the first Jupiter-C was ready for firing at Cape Canaveral. It was a four-stage missile, with even a dummy fourth-stage satellite configuration-just like the bird that last fortnight put Explorer into orbit. By this time, Pentagon brass had a notion that Von Braun might be trying to beat the Navy into space with an unauthorized-and presumably undignified-major satellite. The Army, which had had the foresight to bring Von Braun and his team to the U.S. in the first place, and which had supported him all along in the face of awesome...
...satellite took off for outer space, no missile-beat newsman was under greater strain than Major General Donald N. (for Norton) Yates, U.S.A.F., handsome, gregarious commander of Florida's Air Force Missile Test Center. For it was Meteorologist Yates, 48, who established the uniquely personal working relationship with Cape Canaveral newsmen which last week averted the ballyhoo and garbledy-gook that witlessly inflated the first Vanguard flop into a propaganda debacle for the U.S. As it turned out, last week's detailed, accurate coverage of the U.S. Army's satellite triumph-after the event -not only vindicated...
Ingrained Misgivings. Seventeen days before the Army's satellite shoot, West Pointer Yates grinned expansively at wary newsmen before outlining the missile beat's first set of ground rules. In future, said he, Cape Canaveral correspondents would 1) be briefed off the record each week before scheduled missile firings, 2) get a detailed on-record fill-in on the outcome of some major shoots, 3) cover the tests from vantage points (7,900 ft. from the launching pads) that had previously been off limits to the press. In return for these and other concessions, said Yates, newsmen would...
Without exception, all 70 reporters and photographers who were accredited at Cape Canaveral for the satellite launching accepted Yates's terms and committed their papers, agencies or magazines to them. Many correspondents had ingrained misgivings about the experiment, if only because it might hobble their reporting. Nevertheless, Yates's code worked without a hitch until Jan. 22, when International News Service Correspondent Darrell Garwood reported that a Vanguard would be ready for firing between Jan. 23 and 25. Under pressure from New York headquarters, the United Press's Charles Taylor followed up with a story saying that...