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...good 1,600 miles southeastward from Florida last week, watchers aboard the Navy's salvage ship Escape spotted a white object as it hurtled out of the sky and plunged into the Atlantic. It was the nose cone of a Jupiter IRBM, launched only minutes earlier from a pad at the Cape Canaveral missile test center. Hoisted aboard Escape, the recovered cone proved that the Army had solved both the reentry problem and the accuracy problem. Hitting the target area at a range of 1,600 miles was a feat of marksmanship considerably more remarkable than nicking a dime...
...altitude of 38 miles, the first stage, more than half the projectile, apparently disintegrated after depleting its fuel supply; and after leaving the launching pad vertically, the rocket arched to a more level course almost a mile up and then disappeared in the southeastern skies...
Trailing orange flame, a 75-ft. Atlas ICBM rocketed off its launching pad at Cape Canaveral, Fla. last week and disappeared out over the Atlantic. Shortly afterward the Air Force issued a proud announcement: the big bird had flown successfully over a test course of several hundred miles. Reports had it that the missile, the seventh Atlas to be fired and the third to complete its programed course, was preset to swerve sharply after burnout in a test of structural strength. Apparently it scored...
...launching pad at Cape Canaveral one afternoon last week thundered an Army Jupiter-C rocket. Seven minutes later, the rocket popped a satellite into orbit. What was even more remarkable than this space-age achievement was the fact that the world accepted the news of a third U.S. orbiting moon with a great deal less flutter than that accorded the winners of Hollywood's Academy Awards (see CINEMA...
Space Journal went on the launching pad at Huntsville in 1956 when an aeronautical engineer named B. Spencer ("Billy") Isbell decided he could raise some cash for the local Rocket City Astronomical Association, Inc., by publishing a space magazine for laymen. Editor Isbell, 32, who had no publishing experience brought in ex-Newsman (Montgomery Advertiser) Ralph E. Jennings, 34 sometime ghost writer for Rocketeer von Braun. Working in off-hours, the two started one of the most unscientific countdowns in magazine launching. Isbell and Jennings simply guessed that 50? a copy was a fair price, decided that $200 was plenty...