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Your article about the first successful Nike-Zeus interception of a special target vehicle borne aloft by an Atlas ICBM [TIME, July 27] stated that "the onrushing Atlas ICBM actually carried a transmitter to clue the slender, 48-ft. Nike-Zeus bird on the target...
...though the U.S. could not yet match the Soviet space spectaculars, the once-starved U.S. space program had made broad progress since that dismaying Friday in October 1957 when Soviet Sputnik I started its beeping, curving course. Dozens of unmanned satellites had been shot aloft to circle the earth, and each one had taught engineers more about rocket techniques, told scientists more about the space environment that wraps the world...
...center of the world's only global voice communication network. By flicking a switch, SCAMA's operator can talk clearly and instantaneously with NASA stations that belt the globe, including such odd spots as Kano, Nigeria, and Woomera in Australia's desert. When an astronaut is aloft, SCAMA can follow his voice sweeping all the way around the earth...
...show was even more dramatic in the Canaveral control room, where technicians saw every detail of the balloon's brief life reported by a TV camera carried aloft by the launching rocket. The screen first showed a round metal canister containing the folded balloon as it separated from the rocket nose and sailed smoothly ahead. Then the canister split in two halves; the released balloon began to inflate, its folded segments billowing outward as 52 lbs. of powdered benzoic acid in its interior turned to gas. At first the balloon formed an irregular watermelon shape, sunlight glittering...
...rocket itself was a familiar bird; duplicates had blasted into space many times before. But the payload that the reliable Delta tossed into orbit last week was an astonishing piece of equipment. Built by private industry, fired aloft by the U.S. Government, the Bell Telephone Laboratories' little Telstar satellite (3-ft. diameter) opened a bright new era of long-distance communication. Very-high-frequency radio and TV stations, which are limited to line-of-sight range, suddenly saw their future reach out beyond the horizon, around the curve of the earth...