Rocket Firing At Woomera
(N.Z.PA.-Reuter—Copyright) CANBERRA, September 20. The first Americaninspired rocket to be fired in Australia has successfully completed a 100-mile-plus probe ir.to the upper atmosphere above Woomera
The rocket—a British-built Skylark—was fired for the United States National Aeronautics and Space Administration. It is the first of four similar firings intended to investigate the intensity and distributico of ultra-violet radiation reaching the earth from the atmosphere above the Southern Hemisphere.
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Press, Volume C, Issue 29625, 22 September 1961, Page 7
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