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...Navy, Defense Secretary McElroy shifted dramatically from the Administration position that the Navy's Vanguard Project is coming along on schedule and is all the satellite program the U.S. needs, ordered that Vanguard be "supplemented" by the Army, which has long insisted it could put a satellite into outer space with its Jupiter-C test rocket (in September 1956 a Jupiter-C was fired to an altitude of 600 miles and a distance of 3,500 miles...
...collection was on a red velvet coverlet near his desk as he spoke. It was the 4-ft. nose cone to an Army Jupiter missile. Said the President: "One difficult obstacle on the way to producing a useful long-range weapon is that of bringing a missile back from outer space without its burning up like a meteor . . . This object here in my office is the nose cone of an experimental missile. It has been hundreds of miles into outer space and back. Here it is, completely intact...
Clearly, the President had determined to get going on everything he could do to move the U.S. into outer space. But there was something more important. "What the world needs today," he said, "even more than a giant leap into outer space is a giant step toward peace...
Three University professors, among 48 signers of a full page advertisement in Friday's New York Times, have called for immediate cessation of atomic explosions and for United Nations control over outer space...
Citizens immediately contacted police in the belief that it was Laika, from outer space. The police refuse to believe that Sputnik II has jettisoned its canine cargo, and attribute it to some airborne joker...