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...another problem in keeping up with demand is an acute shortage of the nickel-metal-hydride batteries required for hybrid vehicles. GM's launch of its new hybrid-SUVs has been delayed for nearly three months by a labor dispute at a key supplier of the batteries. And Toyota's chances of getting more hybrids into showrooms is foundering on the battery shortage. "We can't produce enough batteries right now," Carter says. A new plant for the nickel-metal-hydride batteries won't come on line until 2010. GM is deep into negotiations to purchase the battery subsidiary...
...Michael R. Pearlman, who began working at the SAO in 1968, said the Soviet Union informed Whipple of the impending launch before it happened...
...launch of a satellite by the Russians gave tremendous impetus for the Americans to push even harder with their space program,” Pearlman said...
...With the subsequent launch of Sputnik II—nicknamed “Pupnik” for its canine passenger Laika—in Nov., SAO director Fred L. Whipple continued to use this space-fever to expand his center’s staff and research operations...
...According to a press release from the Center for Astrophysics following his death in 2004, Whipple’s group was the only one prepared for the launch...