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...nose of the NACA's rocket contains instruments and telemetering equipment for transmitting data to earth. Although it is not in the class of Project Vanguard's satellite launcher, which must move at 18,000 m.p.h. 300 miles above the earth, the four-stage bird speeds almost as fast as the satellite during critical portions of its flight in comparatively dense air. Study of its behavior will help the satellite's designers...
Gottschallc: The Banjo (Eugene List, piano; Vanguard). A reminiscence of pre-Civil War New Orleans in the form of brief compositions by a onetime resident, Louis Moreau Gottschalk (1829-69). The first American to win an international reputation as pianist and composer, Gott-schalk's arrangements of Creole songs and dances were as popular in Paris of the mid-19th century as Chopin's mazurkas...
...Project Vanguard, which will put the U.S. satellite in an orbit around the earth, is moving forward at a pace that gratifies its sponsors. There have been recurrent rumors of serious trouble, but according to Deputy Director Paul Walsh, nearly everything is on schedule. Ground tests of component parts have been successful, and soon the satellite-launching vehicle will start its flight tests. Each of the three stages will be flown separately before the whole vehicle is fitted together and shot into...
Secrecy always breeds rumors, and a widespread rumor in the missile business is that the Army hopes to toss a satellite into the sky ahead of Project Vanguard, which is administered by the Navy. Leader of this dark plot, according to rumor, is famed Wernher von Braun, chief creator of the German V2, now chief of guided missile development at the Army's Redstone Arsenal, Huntsville, Ala. Von Braun is said to believe that the satellitelaunching vehicle should have a more powerful first-stage rocket. The Army has such rockets, notably the mighty Redstone (range: 200 miles plus...
FACE OF A HERO (221 pp.)-Pierre Boulle-Vanguard...