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Newspaper
Middletown Journal
Location
Middletown, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Dec 12, 1957
Page
3
American youths drive home made rocket experiments amid Sputnik fascination. Connecticut officials study a surge of requests for launches to gauge science value and neighbor safety. Reports cite student mishaps and classroom explosions, with several injuries and one death in Texas and New Mexico incidents.
The Southwestern Rocket Society at the University of Texas plans to fire a 22 000 foot rocket from a Beeville ranch with two more rockets up to 50000 feet in a two stage operation. a prior launch ended in failure. The Reaction Research Society of Glendale California formed by 80 teenagers seeks an earth satellite and has launched rockets 16 miles high in Mojave Desert using mice as payloads. An 11 year old Los Angeles grammar school student Carl Sheriff built a model with his father's help.
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