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ANOTHER STEP TOWARD MOON19-Ton Model of 3-Man Spateship Hurled Into Orbit by Saturn RocketCAPK KF.NNKDY, Fla. (UPI)- -Americas Saturn-.super rocket sent a dummy model of a Uinm-man spaceship Into orbit around earth Friday, bee fin” up this nation’s apparent lead over the Soviet Union in the race to the moon.The 19-story rocket, billed as the mightiest in the world, thundered aloft at 11:23 a.m. KST, and 10 minutes later shoved Us 19-ton payload - a “boilerplate” Apollo moon capsule and burned out rocket easing-- into orbit. Fifty-five minutes later, Dr. Wernher Von Braun,‘ : creator n| :ilt;- fO-i jM-ui V-2 roekel| ;iHlt;l nMen r:il|.-(| Uh' “father of ! {.lit* Kntiii'ii |old tilei satellite w.i- spinning lit orbit : ;i t utmd i1 :i i t b.One reporter asked Von Mrnun tl»c iTiisiH) for tIn* delay in announcing wlistl htul happened. “There’s no trouble,'* Von Hraun said. “I mil confirm it j Hr lit now—U is in orbit.’*Tin* sale Mile is matched in weight only by n similar moonlct consisting of a dummy model of. AiiuiiicJi's Apollo moonship ami burned out rocket. casing, launched into earth orbit, last May 28 by n pi rvii.iu.-i- Saturn-1 super booster.In an orbit ranging from 115 to Utf miles up. scientists said, the 80-fonl~kmg sal ctlil.r- should bo na.sily seen by ground observers In good weather around dawn or cUislc.11 would resemble a bright star moving swiijlv. through the lien \ ■ i -11 s.Officials said tbeir radioed, information from [be rocket indicated “it was a .eery, very sue-, epKsfui fl ip bt for the /pant rocket. ’ ...The Sat.uru-l is the first of a new family' of powerful rockets theUnited States plans ,to use in. its $20 billion step-by-step program to In mi. two astronauts on the. niosm by the. end'of. tills decade.Still ahead are throe, more' flights, all in l.!H»2. for the Saturn-' 1.A slightly more powerful version, the Saturn-115. will roar from the launch pad in IIMKi in the Hrsl attempt to pul threo astronauts into orbit aboard a single spaceship.‘■'I j The Sat urn I was. inspected per- : 9 j son ally by .President' J o h u h o n n.j throe ,da‘s ago..::') 10 kS » —ISd•oIS10toIPU»r,*rIIi\■ \Astronaut• ' ■ . ' ■ . . ' • ’ .9 1 . • :Hurt in TestHOUSTON. TeT, ( UIT-Astro-? inaul Pomi . Kisehvhas joined the. list of .ailing. P.S;.. sjgtecmcn.-.. The- maimed' xpueoerttfi center? said Klsole 'will be; on limited; duly for' aboui throe weeks because of an injury suffered dur-; ing. a\. weightlessness tost., in a; ;-KfJ-T3« jet,Kisele dislocated h.is shoulder during Hu* test, in; which' the jet simulates i in* weight loss ness of Space by pulling -put _ of a con-i Irolled (live......The Saturn I rocket., roars off its pad at {‘ape Kennedy, Via,, Friday to place an unmanned model of the Project Apollo spare-ship into nrhil. (Al' Itpdlopholo)
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Sun, Sep 20, 1964

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