Word: hynek
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Sputnik II has not yet split into two parts, according to Dr. J. Allen Hynek, Associate Director of the Smithsonian Astrophysical Institute...
...press conference yesterday, Hynek stated that there was not sufficient evidence to assume that the satellite had split, since only one report out of thousands observed such a break...
When asked by one reporter whether any end-over-end tumbling of the satellite would have any effect on the dog inside, Hynek replied, "Never having been a dog in a rocket, I don't know...
Sputnik II will pass over Boston at 12:56 Saturday afternoon. Hynek said, however, that football spectators should not attempt to spot the rocket with the naked eye, but that the Institute will try with a five-inch telescope...
...Allen Hynek, also an associate director at the observatory, commented that it "seems feasible" not only to keep the dog alive and as happy as dogs normally are, but also to retrieve it safely. He pointed out that the United States had successfully regained high-speed objects jettisoned at great altitudes. The dog is believed to be hermetically sealed into a capsule, similar to the containers used for instruments in U.S. test rockets...