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Twice within 20 hours last week, the Air Force sent Thor rockets roaring from their Cape Canaveral pads. The first, an Soft. Thor-Able version of the missile (fitted out with a Vanguard second stage), carried an intercontinental ballistic missile nose cone, soared 5,000 miles down range. Despite elaborate homing and signaling systems, the nose cone was not recovered, but telemetry data showed that it had successfully survived a hot ride through the atmosphere...
...Thor ICBM, and the second stage, a 19-ft. liquid-fuel job built by Lockheed, apparently worked well. Watchers assumed that the bird, which consisted of the 1,300-lb. second stage with a 40-lb. instrument payload, had gone into orbit over the South Pacific...
...Administration's thesis: 1) the U.S. will get through the missile gap of the early 1960s with a "diversified" deterrent of manned thermonuclear bombers, Navy carriers and missile-firing nuclear submarines, plus a slowly growing, minimum force of Atlas and Titan ICBMs and the medium-range ballistic missile Thor; 2) the U.S. will close the gap around 1964 to the U.S.S.R.'s disadvantage when the Air Force deploys its "second-generation" solid-fuel Minuteman ICBM in hundreds of underground silos as the missile age's first true mass weapon...
Johns Hopkins File 7 (ABC, 11:30 a.m.-12 noon). Easter Island, lately the subject of Thor Heyerdahl's bestselling Aku-Aku, gets another going-over from Geographer Dr. George Carter; his interest in old stones and caves is exceeded only by his fascination with rongorongo boards (a method of communication...
...brainpower has taken it into dozens of fields. The company devised the recovery system for the Army's Jupiter missile nose cone (TIME, June 9), has presented the Defense Department with a plan for a manned space platform. Cook engineers are working on recovery systems for Atlas and Thor missiles, and on the triple-nosed Cree rocket, designed to eject parachutes at altitudes up to 150,000 ft. and speeds as high as 3,040 m.p.h. The goal: parachutes that will permit the return to earth of a man-carrying space capsule. In Cook's sprawling research labs...