Word: rockets
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Along with reports that both an Atlas ICBM and a satellite-carrying Vanguard rocket will be launched from Cape Canaveral, Fla. in early December, the week brought solid missile news. Items...
...depicts in scientifically rooted detail how an atomic-powered space craft may some day make an interplanetary flight with a crew that could find a way to survive on Mars. Solidly researched, the show presents expert testimony from Dr. Wernher Von Braun, chief of the U.S. Army's rocket program, and other scientists. No less expert is the comic ingenuity lavished on illustrating man's fanciful speculation about life on other planets-a menagerie of Mercurian thing-amajigs and Saturnian whatchamacallits that goes as far out of this world as anything dreamed up by C. S. Lewis...
...Reds Say Rocket Here...
MOSCOW, Dec. 6--Nikita Khrushchev declared tonight part of the carrier rocket of Sputnik I fell in the United States Sunday...
However, Dr. Fred L. Whipple, director of the Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory, said there have been no indications the rocket of Sputnik I fell to earth in the United States or its territories...