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...jets immediately set it spinning at 60 r.p.m. The quick blast of a retrorocket slowed its speed of descent. As the Discoverer capsule knifed into earth's atmosphere, it stopped spinning, shed all useless encumbrances-its gas jet equipment, the retrorocket, and the remains of a protective nose cone-and pared itself down to a svelte 143 Ibs. At 50,000 ft. the capsule's parachute popped open, and it floated calmly down toward the Pacific, radios jabbering like magpies...
...Lynn Burke, 17, of the Santa Clara (Calif.) Swim Club, windmilled the 100-meter backstroke in 1:09.2 to break her own world record by .8 sec., set a furious pace that left 1956 Silver Medal Winner Corin Cone, 19, back in third place-and off the Olympic team...
Cape Canaveral fired a Thor missile with a second-stage Able-Star rocket. Inside a cone atop the Able-Star snuggled the Navy's 223-lb. Transit II-A navigation satellite, a sphere 36 in. in diameter. Transit was the rocket's principal passenger. But with it went a satellite hitchhiker: a 42-lb., 20-in. globe stuffed with instruments to measure solar radiation...
...will be studied by McDonnell Aircraft Corp. under government contract. Vehicle, an enlarged ICBM nose cone with fins, directed by an inertial guidance system, would reenter the earth's atmosphere in glide, travel 75 miles above the earth for long distance until it gradually drops down to be recovered. If Pentagon approves study, device would be built in about two years at an estimated cost of $75-$100 million...
Also in the visible future is the manned spacecraft that, with techniques based on military nose-cone research, will bring its human travelers safely down from orbit or from an interplanetary journey. Strangely, the manned spacecraft in some ways presents fewer problems than the ICBM. Where an ICBM enters the atmosphere at about a 20° angle with a sudden, explosive shock, a space vehicle can come into the atmosphere flat, keeping its deceleration and temperature comparatively...