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Short-Range Missiles: Soviet short-range missiles are solid-fueled, therefore can be fired more quickly than such liquid-fueled missiles as the U.S. Corporal. The Russians have mounted rocket launchers on vehicles with caterpillar tracks. In Red Square they showed a launcher for rockets 12 in. in diameter, mounted on a tanklike chassis. U.S. ground-support missiles are carried on wheeled trucks...
Despite its difficulties, by 1935 the Kummersdorf group had successfully fired two liquid-fuel rockets, christened Max and Moritz (the German cartoon equivalents of the Katzenjammer Kids), and had outgrown the Kummersdorf facilities, moved on to a new range at desolate, marshy Peenemünde, on the Baltic Coast...
...heart-leaping minute of the countdown squawked over an intercom box. At 9:42 a mournful warning horn sounded from the launching area. Two red warning lights blinked steadily. The white rocket fumed and smoked, growing whiter and colder under the pebbled casing of ice caused by the subfreezing liquid oxygen. The service structure moved away on its tracks...
...Prussian Baron Magnus von Braun, is director of the development operations division of the Army Ballistic Missile Agency at Huntsville, Ala., stands out as the inspirational as well as the scientific leader of the Men of Jupiter. At 18 Von Braun was working with crude liquid-fuel rockets, using Berlin's municipal dump; one day a black sedan stopped. Three German army officers stepped out, offered Von Braun military facilities to carry on his rocket work. At 20 he was chief of the entire German rocket program; at 32, working in the Nazi rocket center at Peenem...
MISSILE MERGER will bring together Reaction Motors, Inc. and Thiokol Chemical Corp., two of industry's fastest-rising pioneers. In $7,200,000 stock exchange, Thiokol, which specializes in solid-fuel engines for Nike-Hercules, La Crosse and Lockheed X-17 missiles, will absorb Reaction, a leader in liquid-fueled engines...