Triple Global
Orbit Planned for
First Manned Shot
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla., UP) —
A powerful Juno II rocket thun
dered skyward yesterday carry
ing a potential “gyroscope” sat
ellite that could answer many
questions about space and
weather.
The satellite, named Explorer
VII, was put aloft here at 11:31
a.m. In Washington the National
Space Agency announced at 1:22
p.m. that “Explorer VII is in
orbit.”
The satellite had completed one
complete orbit around the earth
shortly before the announcement,
an agency spokesman said.
Weighing 91 Yi pounds, the satel
lite’s main goal is to study cosmic
radiation, knowledge of which is
a key to space travel by man.
The 76-foot rocket rose pon
derously from its launching pad.
It accelerated rapidly and, after
about 40 seconds, arched high in
the sky and headed toward the
northeast, spurting a brilliant tail
of fire. A minute later it vanished
in a cloud bank.
Thirty-five minutes after launch
it was announced that all four
stages of the rocket fired suc
cessfully and performed accord
Two U.S.A.F. Officers
Removed From Their
Commands In Turkey
WASHINGTON,^ 0P1 — The Air
Force said Saturday two officers
relieved of their commands in
Turkey failed to supervise en
forcement of currency regulations
in their commands.
The officers are Col. Robert N.
Wilkinson, commander of Logis
tical Detachment No. 20 at Izmir,
Turkey,. and Lt. Col. Charles N.
Moss, commander of the Air
Force hospital at the NATO base.
The Air Force last week con
firmed removal of the two of
ficers from their commands but
gave no reason except to refer to
published accounts of their com
plaints against alleged mistreat
ment of four American enlisted
men now on trial before Turkish
authorities for violating currency
regulations.
V
ing to plan.
It was the second space shot of
the day from the Cape. Earlier,
a B47( bomber launched a 17-foot
Bold Orion missile, aiming it at
a point 10 miles in front of the
Explorer VI “paddle wheel” sat
ellite. At the time the satellite
was at 160 miles altitude in the
low point of its orbit and travel
■ ing at 26,000 miles an hour.
Democrats Will Salute
Two Newest States at
California Dinner Rally
SAN FRANCISCO, OP) — Con
gressmen from the nation’s two
newest states will speak at a $100
a-plate Democratic Party dinner
in the Fairmont Hotel here No
vember 6, it was announced yes
terday.
The dinner will be a salute to
Alaska and Hawaii. The featured
speakers will be Rep. Dan Inouye
(D-Hawaii) and Senator Bob Bart
lett of Alaska.
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Trouble Stalls X15 Test
EDWARDS AIR FORCE BASE,
Calif., GP) — A second powered
test flight of the rocket ship X15
was postponed at the last minute
today because of technical diffi
culties.
The craft, locked under the
right wing of a B52 bomber, was
ready to be released for flight
when the trouble, of unspecified
nature, developed. It was brought
back to the base for a checkover.
The ship flew perfectly on its
first powered flight September 17.
The initial tests are with low
power engines. New engines will
be installed for the all-out efforts.
Tokyo Newspaper Charges
U. S. Wants to Peddle Off
Outmoded Jet Fighters
TOKYO, OP) — Japan’s largest
newspaper charged yesterday that
the United States is trying to
peddle jet fighters to underde
veloped countries to sustain its
declining aircraft industry.
Noting that America itself is
converting from manned planes
to guided missiles. Asahi Shimbun
declared in its opinion column:
“In this day and age, when a
rocket has landed on the moon
and another has made a trip to
the other side of the moon and is
coming back, the idea of Japan
being protected by these jet fight
ers is a mockery of the times.”
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Explorer VII Is
Hoisted Aloft for
Radiation Survey
LANGLEY, Va., OP)—The flight
plan for the first Mercury manned
satellite was made public at thjs
space capital yesterday.
It calls for the Mercury capsule
to z»om three times around the
earth at an altitude of 100 miles
and land in the Atlantic off the
Bahama Islands, not far from the
Cape Canaveral, Fla., launching
site. The whole trip would take
4Vt hours.
Hurtling along at 18,000 miles
an hour most of the way, the sat
ellite would cross South Africa,
Australia and a narrow southern
strip of the United States.
As outlined here at the research
center of the National Aeronaut
ics and Space Administration, and
confirmed toy one of the seven
mercury astronauts, the detailed
flight plan is this:
1. A launching slightly north
of east from Cape Canaveral.
2. An initial orbit — first en
circlement of the earth — that
would cross the North Atlantic,
the Canary Islands, Spanish West
Africa and Algeria, the main part
of Africa just north of Lake Chad
and Lake Victoria, Kenya, Aus
tralia south of Perth in the west
and south of Brisbane in the east,
Fiji Islands, Samoa, southern tip
of Ijaja California, northern Mex
ico, Texas south of Austin and
north of Houston, north of New
Orleans and leaving the U. S.
East Coast south of Charleston,
S. C.
3. A second orbit, crossing over
southern U. S. and leaving the
U. S. East Coast at Savannah, Ga.
4. Final orbit — Across South
Africa, eastern New Guinea and
north of Honolulu.
The descent will begin over the
Pacific, and will take the space
capsule across San Diego, San
Angelo, Tex., New Orleans, and
down to a landing in the Bahamas.
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