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... of the International Astronautical Federation, held in Barcelona at the time of the launching of Sputnik I A. E. Slater 206 - WARSAW CONFERENCE ON ROCKET TECHNIQUE AND ASTRONAUTICS An account of ... , 1958 A. E. Slater. 297 - REVIEWS 299 - '''VOLUME 1 NUMBER 9''' '''OCTOBER 1958''' - EDITORIAL 302 - SPUTNIK III RUSSIA'S NEW SATELLITE, AND ITS SIGNIFICANCE IN ASTRONAUTICS MAURICE ALLWARD 303 - WHY SEND ...

... that I really had been doing at the Instrumentation Lab. Fortunately, the Russians launched their Sputnik in October of 1957. I remember standing out in my driveway, getting up early in the morning, and it was cold, and straining my eyes. I did see the Sputnik fly overhead a few times. … I had been staying in contact with Hal Laning, of ... for New York and steer for it. …As a matter of fact, the year before Sputnik was launched, the Astronomer Royal in Great Britain made the mistake of saying, "Space travel ...

... graduated from college or were getting in the Air Force was when the Russians launched Sputnik, starting this whole event. What do you remember of some of these early happenings of ... the Russians could beat us at something like that, that Sputnik. That was in college, I guess. I was in college when Sputnik flew. My position in flight test gave me an ... , flight control. Not mission control, but flight control, piloting. '''Rusnak:''' As you had mentioned, with Sputnik there was a kind of shock that the Soviets could beat us at something, and ...

... to cart their own data back. I just took responsibility for the medical records, the pre- and the post-flight medical information. '''Wright:''' Once the Mercury astronauts had finished the Mercury ... wives and children, and that entailed other things, other than just flight-type activities or pre-flight medical activities. It became busier because the population kept growing and growing. Now we ...

... bilateral contact maintained through rockets, Of course, long before this, reliable systems of meteorological sputniks, worldwide television sputniks, navigation sputniks, etc, will have been established... "Several interesting moves have been taken in the ...

... 7.5-million-lb.-thrust first stage of Advanced Saturn. Re-entry and disintegration of SPUTNIK IV reported by Edward A. Hallbach director of Milwaukee Astronomical Society. Habach and others observed ... touch, was discovered in Manitowoc, Wisc., street by two policemen. Considered as possibly part of SPUTNIK IV, the 20-lb. object was sent by local members of nationwide Moonwatch tracking network ...

... CENTER MSFC Release 77-184) The Washington Post reported on Sputnik 1 's 20th anniversary as observed in the Soviet Union. Sputnik had set off a "search for nationhood in the United ... real sense" with the moon landing 8.5yr ago. However, the certainty of power that Sputnik gave the USSR "has never quite materialized out of the void of space." The A ...

... carried it into orbit January 31, 1958. After two Soviet space firsts- Sputnik 1 on October 4, 1957, and Sputnik 2 carrying the dog Laika into space on November 3, 1957-the ... its batteries were exhausted May 23, 1958. Scientists basing a decay rate on data from Sputnik said that Explorer 1 would not last more than five years. But on March 3 ...

... work for the Coast and Geodetic Survey in February 1957. In October that year, when Sputnik went up, I was in New Zealand on my way to the South Pole, actually ... thing, and that was how the career had actually started. Of course, you can imagine, Sputnik is in the air. I knew about the NASA system, and we’ll probably get ... going to put up this satellite, and before we realized what was happening in October, Sputnik went up. Then shortly thereafter—and this, of course, set everyone agog. This was a ...

... work for the Coast and Geodetic Survey in February 1957. In October that year, when Sputnik went up, I was in New Zealand on my way to the South Pole, actually ... thing, and that was how the career had actually started. Of course, you can imagine, Sputnik is in the air. I knew about the NASA system, and we’ll probably get ... going to put up this satellite, and before we realized what was happening in October, Sputnik went up. Then shortly thereafter—and this, of course, set everyone agog. This was a ...

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