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...Soviet Union last week finally and formally broke silence on where Major Yuri Gagarin was sent into orbit (Baikonur), and where he returned to earth (Smelovka). TIME'S Mapmaker R. M. Chapin Jr. hit it on the button in the April 21 cover story on Gagarin...
...succeed in the youth culture is to fall into an orbit where clipping is a diversion and vandalism a style of self-assertion. To enter the school is to face up to middle class values, and the barrier is virtually impenetrable. Youth returning from school take off their school clothes as if removing prison uniforms. More than half quit school as soon as the law allows. Little wonder that parents turn to the settlement house and ask, "Why don't you make the kids behave...
Within the next few months, there will be three or four more suborbital manned space shots using the Redstone rocket that sent Shepard into space. But it is not the Redstone that will first take a U.S. astronaut into orbit around the planet...
That job is programed for the more powerful-and, so far, much less reliable-Atlas missile. Of three Atlases tested while carrying unmanned Mercury capsules, two have blown up. The National Aeronautics and Space Administration still hopes to work out the Atlas and send an astronaut into orbit by year...
...landing on a chosen spot, not merely drifting down by parachute like the Vostok or Freedom 7. Now veteran rocketmen are talking of beating Dyna-Soar off the pad. They are suggesting a solid-fuel rocket with upper-stage rockets powerful enough to put the present X-15 into orbit. Long before the Russians get a true plane into space, the U.S. might have the X-15 circling the world. Once in orbit, the swift little rocketship could maneuver freely, change direction and altitude, cross and recross the same cities, and glide down to land on conventional airports...