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...Army will fire from Cape Canaveral a Jupiter-C or hopped-up Jupiter that Army Spaceman Wernher von Braun believes will hit the moon. Less optimistic Army missileers expect their missile will either graze the moon-and message back valuable readings on gases around it-or make a lunar orbit. But the Air Force will probably be able to try an orbiting moonshot first. Ready for launching within a matter of weeks will be a Thor-Vanguard hybrid similar to the lost missile fired from the Cape last week in a nose-cone configuration test...
...Navy failed last night in an attempt to orbit its second Vanguard satellite, the Smithsonian Observatory in Cambridge announced last night...
Test instruments revealed that the third stage of the rocket did not fire, and as a result, the projectile "failed to attain the speed required to send an object into orbit around the earth...
...Christopher really helped your "devoted rocketmen" get the Vanguard into orbit [March 21], why don't we invite Bishop Sheen (or Billy Graham) down to Cape Canaveral to give our new satellites an extra boost? Solid fuels? Bah! All we will need is prayer and a skyhook...
...Vanguard satellite that was launched on March 17 has become a semi-permanent member of the solar system. Dr. John P. Hagen, head of Project Vanguard, announced last week that Vanguard I is on a "very stable orbit," rising as high as 2,500 miles and never approaching closer to the earth than 404 miles...