Air Force Tries Lauiichisi
Titan at Cape Canaveral!
Cape Canaveral, Fla.-fl.TE-The
Air Force attempted a
firing of the mighty Titan bal
listic missile for the first time
yesterday but a flaw in the
first-stage rocket prevented
its launching.
A new automatic device cut
off the engine, and saved the
multi-million dollar missile
from being destroyed.
Smoke and vapor belched
from the striped .first-stage,
which was the only engine
fired. But the 90-foot Titanr
static and ground tested many
times, was never released
from its pad boltings. Thick
clouds billowed about the
base, then cleared and the Ti
tan stood motionless.
"A malfunction occurred
shortly after ignition causing
automatic cut-off of the en
gine while the missile was
still on the launch, pad," the
Air Force said.
First Test Launching
It was the first test launch
ing of the super-missile, de
signed to be mightier than
the satellite Atlas ICBM. Its
Soviet Scientist
Says Satellite
Not the Heaviest
Moscow -CPD- A top Soviet
scientist yesterday ridiculed
American claims that the new
four-ton U.S. Atlas satellite
was the heaviest one ever
placed into orbit.
The scientist, Leonid Sedov,
said the carrier rockets of the
three Soviet sputniks weigh
ed considerably more , when
they went around the globe.
Sedov, chairman of the in
terplanetary communications
committee of the U.S.S.R
Academy of Sciences, congrat
ulated U.S. scientists on the
progress they had made since
they first fired the small Ex
plorer I satellite into orbit
last Jan. 31.
But most of an interview
which Sedov granted to the
Soviet Tass News Agency was
concerned with the weight of
the big Atlas missile.
A Tass correspondent had
asked Sedov what he thought
about "the sensational noise
raised by some officials and
newspapers to the effect that
this U.S. satellite is the larg
est satellite in the world and
is three times the weight of
the Soviet satellite." ;
"To all technically literate
people," Sedov - said, -"there
can be no question of the new
U.S. satellite surpassing -any
of the three Soviet satellites
in weight." ,
The Soviet scientist said the
actual payload of the Atlas
was considerably less than
any of the payloads of Rus
sia's three Sputniks. He said
that the payload of the Atlas
was 133 pounds compared
with 184 pounds for Sputnik
I. 1,118 pounds for Sputnik II
and 2,919 pounds for Sputnik i
HI. I
"It is the weight of the new
U.S. satellite taken together
with the carrier rocket that
has been put in orbit which
has been used for the creation
of sensation" Sedov said.
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U.S. IRBM Bases
Expected in Italy
Washington - (UPD - Defense
Secretary Neil H. McElroy,
reported yesterday that ar
rangements were n e a r i n g
completion to set up U. S.
missile bases in Italy and pos
sibly other friendly European
countries. ' .
He said that if agreements
were completed, American
production of the intermedi
ate' range ballistic missiles,
which can carry a nuclear
warhead 1,500 miles, will be
stepped up.
Thus . far. only Britain has
allowed the United States to
establish and man missile
bases on its soil. Four Thor
squadrons are being assigned
there.
McElroy, returning from
North Atlantic Treaty organi
zation talks in Paris, and con
ferences with Italian defense
officials, said the U. S. was
close to a favorable decision
concerning Italy and was
"prepared" to . send missile
units to other NATO countries.
He hinted that some agree
ment had been reached on the
urgency of placing IRBM
squadrons in readiness on the
European continent.
. Until the 6,000 -mile Atlas
ballistic missile becomes oper
ational at U. S. bases next
year, Thor IRBM squadrons
being set "up in Britain will
represent the only operation
al ballistic missile capable of
hitting Soviet targets in event
of war.
British Pacifists
Block Missile
' Swaffham. England- tOPD-A
group of protesting pacifists
blocked the main gate or a
big U. S. Thor missile base
construction site here yester
day while fellow demonstra
tors sang Christmas carols.
Reinforced police arrested 20
of them!
The demonstrators squatted
in the mud at the entrance
and obstructed passage of
trucks carrying building sup
plies into the key missile base.
- Police picked up the paci
fists individually and loaded
them bodily into black marias.
Thev set ud a shuttle service
that sped the arrested demon
strators from the construction
site to the Swaffham jail,
three miles away.
.; Other pacifists, who shied
away from the police, cluster
ed farther down the road from
the base singing "Silent
Night" and "Hark the Herald
Angels Sing."
. It was the third demonstra
tion against the construction
of the missile base -by the
pacifists, members of the "Di
r e c t Action Committee
Against Nuclear . War."
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flight range was to be only
some 200 miles in length at a
maximum altitude of only 50
miles.
Even if successful, the
flight would have lasted only
about , 10 minutes. An Air
Force spokesman said the
flight would have been con
sidered 90 per cent successful
had the huge missile merely
lifted from its pad on its
maiden test shot.
The Titan may be the ve
hicle which will first take
man to the moon and back.
Manned Flight
M a j .. Gen. Bernard A.
Schriever, Air Force missile
chief, had said that the first
stage of the Titan "could pro
vide manned flight around
the moon and back to earth."
It is designed so that its en
gines could be added in addi
tional stages for greater
thrust, and its builders be
lieve this may be utilized for
launching into a moon orbit,
reaching across the ; face of
the earth, to the moon - or a
planet. ' -
It stood on its pad against a
sky-blue cape horizon with its
copper-colored second stage
gleaming in the Florida sun
light. The first stage was
white with vertical black
stripes to make visual tracing
easier.
Half-Moon
There was a pale half-moon
hanging tauntingly in the
heavens.
The Air Force said the Ti
tan's first stage was packed
with instruments to record
data on friction, stresses and
strain and other factors to be
measured in flight at thous
ands of miles per hour speed.
Despite the . failure to re
lease the giant . missile from
its bolted pad . position, ad
vances in long-range missile
design were apparent.
The automatic cut-off sys
tem may have saved the Titan
from complete destruction,
thus saving taxpayers mil
lions of dollars. A highly
placed source said the trouble
could have been something
which would have caused it to
explode as it left the launch
ing pad. -
With the missile still on the
pad. rocket scientists will be
able to check the flaws in the
test-firing and compare - re
sults with a recent static test
of the Titan. . ..
BEAUTY OF BATHING
Chicago -' (UPD - More goes
into a bathtub nowadays than
a bather and a cake of soap.
The Baking Soda Institute
said a survey showed popcorn,
peanuts and candy contribute
to the happiness of Americans
while they're soaking in the
suds. The report said 12 per
cent of the nation's smokers
enjoy a cigarette in the tub.
Two out of five persons listen
to music ranging from opera
tic arias to rock 'n' roll as
they bathe. Nearly a quarter
of all bathers read in the tub
and one out of 18 women
manicure their nails.
There are about 2,800 dif
ferent languages in the world.
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