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Perhaps this Administration will succeed in firing a golf ball or tranquilizer pill into a satellite orbit by the time the Russians occupy the moon...
...scientific instruments, for the exploration of the moon's surface. The robot tank, as shown in these pictures from the film, would be carried through space inside a three-stage "cosmic" rocket, launched beyond the earth's atmosphere by a winged, rocket-driven "spaceship." Once in an orbit similar to Sputnik's, the rocket would be refueled by another guided rocket, and then, accelerating fast enough to escape the earth's gravitational pull, would head for the moon. After the rocket landed, the tank would emerge and by radio control would roll across the moon...
...reason for the U.S. action, officials said, is dissatisfaction with President Tito's recognition last week of Communist East Germany and questions raised here as to whether Tito is moving back into the Soviet orbit...
High-powered telescopic cameras soon to go into operation will pinpoint the flying satellite within a few feet of distance and a few milliseconds of time. Then its orbit can be tracked with enough precision to observe the effect of variations in the earth's gravitation. The satellite's radio signals (even without the key of the code) will be useful in studying the electrified layers in the upper atmosphere. Non-Russian scientists may even learn a little about the density of the air at orbit altitude, by clocking how fast the satellite loses energy...
...heard the beeps of the Soviet Sputnik more clearly last week than U.S. toymakers, who lost no time blasting off on an 18,000-m.p.h. orbit all their own. Looking ahead to Christmas, the toymen were already well-stocked with an arsenal of celestial hardware. They quickly launched a crash program to unwrap the stuff. "The second I heard about the Russian satellite," said one somber-voiced toyman, "I knew we had to move fast...