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...your Oct. 21 article, "Project Vanguard," you failed to state the ultimate reason for our failure to produce a satellite: the complacency and apathy of the American people...
...Administration explains that the Vanguard satellite lags because "basic missile research and development" has priority over the satellite. Hasn't the Administration noticed that while we have neither, the Russians have both...
...Navy Vanguard fired at Cape Canaveral, Fla. climbed 109 miles in the first-stage test of the three-stage rocket that will, according to schedule, launch a fully instrumented U.S. outer-space satellite next spring...
...space navigation. They can observe the earth's gravitation, its magnetic field, its electric charge, and the cloud patterns of its weather in ways that are impossible for earth-bound humans. Some of these jobs might be difficult for a light satellite, such as the 21.5-lb. U.S. Vanguard. But a properly equipped satellite could take pictures of the earth or the sun and transmit them to the ground by some sort of TV or telephoto process. Such data, in the hands of the world's scientists, would give the human species a much better understanding...
...midst of the cold war, Vanguard's cool scientific goal proved to be disastrously modest: the Russians got there first. The post-Sputnik White House explanation that the U.S. was not in a satellite "race" with Russia was not just an after-the-fact alibi. Said Dr. Hagen ten months ago: "We are not attempting in any way to race with the Russians." But in the eyes of the world, the U.S. was in a satellite race whether it wanted to be or not, and because of the Administration's costly failure of imagination, Project Vanguard shuffled along...