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50 YEARS AFTER SPUTNIK The beginning of the Space Age

F.P. Israel, Sterrewacht Leiden. 50 YEARS AFTER SPUTNIK The beginning of the Space Age. Out of the blue .... 19:28:34 UT Friday October 4, 1957. ... one can imagine the

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50 YEARS AFTER SPUTNIK The beginning of the Space Age

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  1. F.P. Israel, Sterrewacht Leiden 50 YEARS AFTER SPUTNIKThe beginning of the Space Age

  2. Out of the blue .... 19:28:34 UT Friday October 4, 1957

  3. ... one can imagine the consternation and admiration that would be felt here if the United States were to discover suddenly that some other nation had already put up a succesful satellite. Jimmy Lipp Project RAND, 1947 Despite Early Warning ....

  4. Wernher von Braun 1950's space visionary Medaris. Toftoy & Disney

  5. Spy Balloons ... WS 119, WS 46

  6. Land Killian Bissell Spy Planes ... Secret U-2

  7. Spy Satellites! WS 116 1954

  8. Atlas Thor CIA & USAF

  9. Schriever (USAF)‏ Medaris (ABMA)‏ Navy, Army & Air Force at each other's throats ... Hagen (NRL)‏ Vanguard - IGY

  10. ABMA Trump Card in 1956: Jupiter-C

  11. Meanwhile, back in the USSR ... Korolev, Kurchatov, Keldysh Glushko, Sedov 1956

  12. Brilliant improviation: PS-1 October 4, 1957

  13. More improvisation: PS-2 Laika November 3, 1957

  14. Catastrophe at Cape CanaveralDecember 6, 1957

  15. Explorer 1, January 31, 1958 Rehabilitation in 84 days ...

  16. Explorer 1: Pickering,van Allen, von Braun

  17. Killian presidential science advisor 1958: Vanguard D1 & D2: Sputnik 3

  18. Kruschev & Eisenhower:Men with a secret ...

  19. 1960: U-2 Incident GaryPowers

  20. Alias Discovery failure after failure ....

  21. Discoverer 2 Ice Station Zebra

  22. But few are in the know.... 1960: succes Discoverer 13 Discoverer 14

  23. Resolution: 12 m Total coverage

  24. It was as if an enormous floodlight had been turned on in a darkened warehouse CIA Deputy Director Wheelon, 1961 .... tonight we know how many missiles the enemy has and, it turned out, our guesses were way off. We were doing things we didn't need to do. We were building things we didn't need to build. We were harbouring fears we didn't need to harbour. President Johnson, March 16, 1967

  25. July 1969 Apollo and N-1 Space Race ends

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