NAVY SATELLITE ATTEMPT
Reasons For Failure
(NJZ. Press Association —Copyright) (Rec. 9.30 p.m.) CAPE CANAVERAL, March 10. The United States Navy’s attempt to fire its satellite-carry-ing Vanguard rocket on Saturday was frustrated by a faulty weather report which cost an hour of valuable time and the absence of a crane operator, which cost another crucial 15 minutes, the American Associated Press reported today. It said the weather report wrongly forecast high winds which could have torn the rocket to pieces if it had been fired. The crane operator was not at his post when the countdown went to within 35 seconds of firing time. The rocket’s last tie with the earth, a line known as the “umbilical cord” failed to fall away as it should have and the crane was needed to pluck it away.
The firing was called off later when bad weather set in.
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Press, Volume XCVII, Issue 28532, 11 March 1958, Page 7
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