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...Force's attempted firing of its 5,500-mile ICBM Titan. For the U.S.'s potentially most lethal ICBM, it was the first test for the full two-stage assembly. But the missile never left the ground, disintegrated in an explosion on the launching pad...
...countdown was perfect. Up from the launch pad of Cape Canaveral at 10:23 one morning last week roared a 90-ft., 52½-ton Thor-Able rocket, lifting cleanly into an overcast sky with steadily increasing acceleration. Two minutes and 40 seconds later the second stage fired smoothly, then the third. Out from the sides of the globular pay load unfolded four strange paddles. As the "paddlewheel satellite" tumbled through space at 171 revolutions per minute, 8,000 solar cells in the 20-inch-square vanes picked up the sun's energy to charge the chemical batteries, send...
Missile scientists insist that they learn something from every big bird that gets off the launching pad. no matter how ignominious its end. But by any other name, an epidemic of missile failures at Cape Canaveral last week added up to one of the most disappointing weeks of U.S. missilery. Items...
...Convair, the makers of the ICBM, put out word that Atlas was on the mend, and that the causes of the failures had been traced and corrected. Last week the Air Force tried four times to launch another Atlas. Because of assorted bugs, it never left the launching pad...
Juno. The Army's huge Juno II missile, built around the reliable Jupiter intermediate-range ballistic missile and carrying a 91.5-lb. space laboratory in its nose cone, lifted off its pad and almost immediately veered dangerously inland. The range safety officer jabbed the "destruct" button. Belching orange flame and black smoke, its upper-stage rockets exploding, the space monster crashed to the ground barely 150 ft. from the blockhouse where 55 scientists and technicians were watching (it was more than an hour before they could come out safely). From an observers' stand a quarter of a mile...