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...date for launching the first full-fledged U.S. earth satellite was listed as a possibility by the Navy today. A spokesman said that, if the navy is successful with its 6.4-inch, 31/4-pound test satellite next month, the 20-inch sphere carrying complex instruments might be fired into orbit in January rather than March, as originally planned. Vanguard now possesses a higher priority than it did in the past--a development that has just occurred, the Navy man declared...
LONG before Sputnik soared into its orbit, TIME's editors and correspondents had been exploring the fascinating vistas and terrifying dangers of space travel, missile war, and the scientific and technological resources that make them possible. Along with countless week-to-week stories, TIME took its first full-length journey into space five years ago with a cover story on the Space Pioneer (Dec. 8, 1952). In the following months the editors reported on the state of U.S. education in science, in the cover on California Institute of Technology President Lee DuBridge (May 16, 1955); on space medicine, with...
Mighty Laika Rose. The day-to-day suspense of survival in space lost nothing from the fact that the space pup changed names with almost every orbit. The New York Times, which devoted a special inside column to the tales of wags, at first identified it as Kudryavka. a female name meaning Curly. The Times then decided the dog was a male named Limonchik (Little Lemon). Even in Moscow, reported a Baltimore Sun correspondent, an economics journal called the dog Malyshka, while Evening Moscow claimed that its real name was Zhuchka. Most papers finally agreed that sputpup was a female...
...pinpointed both Soviet satellites accurately enough to backtrack by computer and find the hour when they were launched. Sputnik 1, the observatory said, took to space on Oct. 4 at 8 a.m. E.S.T. Sputnik 111 was launched in the middle of the afternoon on Nov. 1. Its orbit is more elliptical, rising higher and sinking lower, than the orbit of Sputnik...
Since a perfectly circular orbit is a bull's-eye in satellite launching, the Russian missilemen did not do quite so well with their second satellite...