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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Braun to the point of resigning. Nazidom's power-grabbers began fighting for control of the weapon Hitler had approved, and in February 1944, Wernher von Braun was jailed by Heinrich Himmler's black-shirted SS because he declined to connive in putting the Peenemünde project under SS control instead of army control. Only after Dornberger convinced Hitler himself that the V-2 program would collapse immediately without Von Braun was Von Braun released. By that time he had begun to like his jail. "I had plenty of time to think," says...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SPACE: Reach for the Stars | 2/17/1958 | See Source »

First Came Science. From that meeting came a joint Army-Navy undertaking named Project Orbiter. The Navy was to develop the satellite itself; the Army was to build the vehicle, using Redstone as its first stage. Target dates: launching sites to be established by April 1956, and the actual satellite shoot to be made in the summer or fall...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ARMED FORCES: We Kind of Refused to Die | 2/10/1958 | See Source »

...Project Orbiter died almost aborning. Reason: the decision was made at the highest Administration levels, and was announced by President Eisenhower in July 1955, to scrap the U.S. satellite as a military project and to make it part of the International Geophysical Year's scientific program. The Navy got the franchise in Project Vanguard, and the Army was ordered to stay away from satellite work...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ARMED FORCES: We Kind of Refused to Die | 2/10/1958 | See Source »

...same sentiments differently. "We say simply magari," he told an American friend, adding: "In rough translation, that means, 'Thank God, you finally went and did it.' " The British press, most of which had hooted in cheery derision at the flop of the Navy's Project Vanguard, now cheered. Wrote the London Express: "The moon's signal is a high-pitched, continuous wheeee. And that can be translated as, 'Cheer up, America. We're in the heavens, all's right with the world...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SPACE AGE: The New Moon | 2/10/1958 | See Source »

...Projects of this sort are apparently in the works. A spokesman for the Army announced plans for a 500-lb. space vehicle that can be used for military reconnaissance, presumably taking pictures of the terrain that it passes over and sending them back to earth by radio or TV. Another announced Army project is a rocket motor with 1,000,000 lbs. of thrust, twelve times the power of the souped-up Redstone. Meanwhile, said Dr. von Braun, a second Jupiter-C is being made into a satellite launcher. Some time between now and April it will toss another small...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: 1958 Alpha | 2/10/1958 | See Source »

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