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Buck Rogers Inc. Cook's brainpower has taken it into dozens of fields. The company devised the recovery system for the Army's Jupiter missile nose cone (TIME, June 9), has presented the Defense Department with a plan for a manned space platform. Cook engineers are working on recovery systems for Atlas and Thor missiles, and on the triple-nosed Cree rocket, designed to eject parachutes at altitudes up to 150,000 ft. and speeds as high as 3,040 m.p.h. The goal: parachutes that will permit the return to earth of a man-carrying space capsule...
...into the sky. it runs on rails devised by the ill-tempered Sir Isaac, who sat in his English garden nearly 300 years ago and wondered why things move as they do, and why things fall. When a rocket engine shoots a jet of gas out of its tail cone, Newton's third law takes over: For every action there is an equal and opposite reaction. Acting in the opposite direction to that of the racing gases, a mighty force lifts the rocket off its launching pad. As long as the engine fires, the rocket climbs faster and faster...
...jerks free, firing the first stage directly ahead. After first-stage burnout and separation the second stage fires, guided by a new type of system devised by Martin Co.. then arcs upward at a 45° angle. Before reaching the top of its arc, it releases the nose-cone, which follows a ballistic curve to the target over the horizon...
Space pioneer of the week: a male Latin American squirrel monkey. Strapped into a rubber-padded chamber in the nose cone of a Jupiter intermediate-range ballistic missile, the bright-eyed, bushy-tailed beast, Little Old Reliable by name, made space-research history as the first higher mammal to travel hundreds of miles into space, where only a Russian dog and U.S. mice had gone before. Purpose of the test: to gather data on how a human might fare in space flight. Reasons for picking a squirrel monkey: small size-Little Old Reliable weighed less than 1 lb.-and close...
Some 15 minutes and 1.500 miles after the Jupiter soared into the sky, its nose cone plunged into the Atlantic off the West Indian island of Martinique. The cone had been fitted up with devices-automatically inflated float, flashing light, beeping radio transmitter, etc.-that had enabled Navy-Army task forces to find and recover three earlier Jupiter nose cones. But this time, somehow, the apparatus failed to work. After searching for six hours, the task force gave up, and the Army announced that Little Old Reliable was missing in action and presumed dead. But after his electronic fashion...