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...minutes last week, Cape Canaveral was treated to one of the most spectacular displays of rocketry in its 11-year space-age history. Splashing a white, blue and orange vapor trail across the radiant dawn sky, a 100-ft.-tall Atlas-Agena rocket lifted in stately perfection off the pad, thundered up on a mission that was to carry its payload 685,000 miles into interplanetary space...
...Black Sky. At T minus 3, the "cherry picker" escape crane drew slowly away from the capsule. Away snapped the umbilical cord that had supplied oxygen, power and communication. The rocket was on its own. As it waited for the starter's button, a cloud of white vapor from the liquid oxygen spread like a puddle over its pad. The crowd fell silent. Exactly at T, the rocket roared, rose off the ground and, standing on its tail of flame, climbed smoothly into...
...going up!" shouted the Prime Minister. The solid-fueled, multiple-stage rocket (the number of stages was a military secret) tilted slightly and soared up 50 miles. There it emitted a cloud of sodium vapor-a standard means of enabling observers to track ionospheric wind currents...
Summer had come with a rush. On the biggest holiday weekend of the season, highways were blue with the vapor trails of traffic. Eastern beaches were alive with humanity; campers struggled up the slopes of the Rockies, the Smokies and the high Sierra. On Midwestern lakes, motorboats roared over the placid water, pulling skiers like dragonflies behind. The U.S. seemed relaxed, and in regard to the people's personal affairs, it was. But beneath the suntanned surface, when U.S. citizens thought of their country there was uneasiness and discontent...
...missile arced into high, cool air, millions of awed Americans followed its flight. On television sets from Canaveral to California they watched while its widening vapor trail was twisted into antic patterns by winds aloft. They listened while the calm, businesslike voice of the astronaut reported by radio as he progressed along his predetermined path. Schoolrooms knew an unaccustomed hush as students concentrated on Shepard's dangerous trip. Traffic thinned in thousands of cities as drivers pulled to the curb and tuned their radios. In Indianapolis, a judge halted courtroom proceedings so that all hands could watch...