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There was no sign that the Soviet Union's blasting of a satellite toward orbit around the sun would result in any immediate monetary shot in the arm for the American space program. Rather, indications developed that the heavily Democratic Congress convening Wednesday may write its own ticket in the months ahead on funds for defense and allied operations. Eisenhower's figure is up only 100 millions over the current budget...
NASA's Project Mercury, to be detailed officially in mid-January, aims to shoot a man into orbit within two to three years, and return him safely to earth. Although much of the hardware for the shoot has been developed and proved, scientists are still working on the development of new metallurgy and better tracking and recovery systems. Pushing the capsule-enclosed man into space will be the job of the Air Force's Atlas (another 20 or 30 Atlas shoots must be made before the missile can be considered thoroughly reliable). Who will be the first orbiting...
MOSCOW, Jan. 4--The Soviet Union's cosmic rocket blazed an ever lengthening trail into space today and was reported gradually entering into orbit around the sun, with its radio still sending scientific information back to earth...
Tass, official news agency, said it would enter its orbit around the sun by Jan. 7 or 8 and thus become the first artifical planet in the sun's system...
...failure to attend functions he will be failure to attend functions he will be unable to participate in Varsity games. Kissinger returns from Cuba to become Harvard's defense coach. The Glenn L. Martin Co. announces the successful launching of a seven-pound Vanguard satellite which goes into orbit around Sputnik...