U.S. Satellite Fails To Reach Orbit
VANDENBERG AIR FORCE BASE (California). June 29. The Discoverer-XXI satellite was launched today with new “snooper” equipment aboard to find out why no Discoverer capsules have yet been recovered from space, but the latest Discoverer failed to go into orbit Scientists had hoped to determine what- was going wrong during the critical sequence when the payload was supposed to separate from the satellite and return to earth.
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Press, Volume XCIX, Issue 29245, 1 July 1960, Page 11
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