Contract Let For Giant Rocket
WASHINGTON, May 6. The National Aeronautics and Space Administration today awarded a 33,500,000 dollar * contract to the Convair Astronautics Division of the General Dynamics Corporation, California, for development of a giant new space rocket which may be fired to Venus in early 1961. Known as the Vega, the new three-stage, 147-ton vehicle will stand as high as a 10storey building. It was said to be capable of putting a twoton space laboratory with .several men aboard into a 300mile high orbit around the earth for several weeks.
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Press, Volume XCVIII, Issue 28888, 7 May 1959, Page 15
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