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NASA has scheduled at least six additional Saturn IB tests over the next year, including two or more manned missions to orbit the earth. By then Saturn V, the actual moon rocket towering 364 ft. and with 7,500,000 lbs. of initial thrust, will be ready for its first flight. After last week's triumph, NASA's Dr. George Mueller was saying that "a major step toward the moon" had been made. More enthusiastic officials were even talking about landing an American on the moon in early 1968, a full year ahead of schedule...
...announcement from the Soviet Union was characteristically terse. Two dogs had been blasted into orbit aboard the spaceship Cosmos 110 "to conduct biological tests." Beyond that the Russians said practically nothing. The intended length of the trip, the breed and sex of the dogs, the size and weight of the spacecraft, whether the experiment was concerned directly with travel to the moon or with lengthy earth orbit, whether an attempt would be made to bring the dogs back-all such matters remained a secret. Clearly the Russians were putting on the dogs to steal headlines from the Saturn IB launch...
...that did not take it nearly so far north and south. This might have been an attempt to avoid the hazards of an emergency landing in remote snowbound areas. The 51° angle, however, was also close to the angle that Russian moon shots have followed while in earth orbit, lending weight to the premise that Veterok and Ugolyok may be the immediate predecessors of the moon dogs the Russians have said they intend to send into lunar orbit ahead...
...inclination, to say nothing of the perigee and apogee, represented more than a launch mistake or a guidance error. In fact, no one was even sure why Veterok and Ugolyok had been chosen for the voyage. Though dogs are perfectly satisfactory subjects, U.S. scientists plan this fall to orbit a biosatellite loaded with wasps and fruit flies, which react far more quickly and sensitively to radiation. Perhaps the reason for the choice of dogs was simply that ever since Pavlov the Russians have used dogs for everything...
...products range from metal micro-particles .025 in. in diameter-as small as sifted sand-to the Polaris missiles, capable of bearing hydrogen warheads from beneath the sea to targets 2,500 miles away. Lockheed's second-stage Agena rocket has put more payload in orbit than any other U.S. booster, telemetered more data from space than all other U S. spacecraft combined...