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...blasted off from a secret U.S.S.R. test base-a huge rocket that hurled into orbit a huge satellite. The satellite separated into three parts, and one of them moved outward, leaving the earth's environs forever. Then Moscow announced triumphantly that "an automatic interplanetary station'' weighing 1,419 lbs., emblazoned with the Soviet coat of arms, was on its way to Venus-or thereabouts...
...next post), during the riots that brought cancellation of President Eisenhower's visit to Japan last spring. Of particular appeal to the Administration is Reischauer's intimate knowledge of Korea as well as Japan. The State Department would like to bring Korea back into Japan's orbit, thus take some of the heat off Japan's search for greater trade with Red China...
...booster on the pad at Cape Canaveral was a Redstone, a militarily obsolete but reliable Army rocket. Perched on its nose was a Mercury space capsule, designed to carry a man into orbit and bring him back alive. The capsule was standard size, but its interior had been tailored for a chimp and supplied with special gear and fittings for its non-human passenger...
...chimp began his pioneering trip through space, another U.S. missile, bearing an earth satellite, was launched from Point Arguello Naval Missile Facility, 170 miles northwest of Los Angeles. It was an Air Force Samos (from Satellite and Missile Observation System), and it went into an almost perfectly circular polar orbit 300-350 miles above the earth...
Other facts and figures were known: the launcher was an Atlas, and the second stage was an Agena, which spun into orbit, weighed some 4,000 Ibs., including 2,000 Ibs. of instruments and equipment. But the most significant thing about last week's Samos was the secrecy that shrouded it. Said an official Air Force spokesman in a masterpiece of Pentagonese: "The purpose of the initial Samos flights is component testing bearing on the engineering feasibility of obtaining an observation capability from an orbiting satellite...