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...terms cabled to De Gaulle were "similar," Administration officials said; they could not be "identical" without drastic changes in U.S. law. For, unlike Britain, France would almost certainly need U.S. help to miniaturize its own crude warheads, which weigh twice as much (1,543 Ibs.) as the Polaris payload; France would also need help in designing nuclear submarines for the missile...
...breakthrough," said U.S. Space Expert Wernher von Braun. "It does not look like the Russians used any new equipment." Von Braun was sure that Russia was still operating with the same rocket booster used in Vostok I and Vostok II, which is capable of lifting a 14,000-lb. payload. Hugh Dryden, Deputy Administrator of the National Aeronautics & Space Administration, agreed, suggesting that while the Soviet booster was capable of such propaganda space spectaculars as the twin shoot, it was far too small for moon exploration...
...will lift each Saturn C-5 off the ground with 7,500,000 Ibs. of thrust. Then a second stage, with five J-2 hydrogen-burning engines (1,000.000 Ibs. total thrust), will take over. Between them, the two stages will be capable of putting a 240,000-lb. payload on an earth orbit 140 miles high. A third stage, with a single J-2 engine, will push 90,000 Ibs. to earth escape velocity and deliver that hefty payload at the moon...
...rocket itself was a familiar bird; duplicates had blasted into space many times before. But the payload that the reliable Delta tossed into orbit last week was an astonishing piece of equipment. Built by private industry, fired aloft by the U.S. Government, the Bell Telephone Laboratories' little Telstar satellite (3-ft. diameter) opened a bright new era of long-distance communication. Very-high-frequency radio and TV stations, which are limited to line-of-sight range, suddenly saw their future reach out beyond the horizon, around the curve of the earth...
...live second stage, which will be powered by a cluster of six 15,000-lb.-thrust engines nourished by liquid hydrogen and oxygen. Scientists figure that Saturn eventually will be able to heave more than 200,000 lbs. into orbit around the earth, or send an 80,000-lb. payload to outer space. This is far more weight than can be put aloft by any other U.S. missile-more than enough to send three astronauts around the moon and back, far more than the missile that sent Soviet Cosmonaut Gherman Titov around the globe 17 times...