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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...
...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...
...Hynek Sends Data to USSR...
...Allen Hynek, head of the nation's satellite optical tracking program, said the data would be telegraphed to the Russian Academy of Science in Moscow...
...great defect of Hynek's proposal is that it is politically impracticable. There is already too much confusion of authority in Washington; the Secretary of Science's domain would be hopelessly intertwined with almost every other department, particularly Defense and Health, Education and Welfare...