SPACE GLIDER.—A 6ft, delta-winged space glider is at the top of this ThorDelta rocket being launched at Cape Kennedy, Florida. The glider flew a 13,300-mile-an-hour suborbital course to test materials which might be used on future manned spaceships which will manoeuvre and land like aircraft. The winged research craft landed in the Atlantic Ocean about 2750 miles south-east of the cape.
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Press, Volume CIV, Issue 30688, 2 March 1965, Page 8
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61SPACE GLIDER.—A 6ft, delta-winged space glider is at the top of this Thor-Delta rocket being launched at Cape Kennedy, Florida. The glider flew a 13,300- mile-an-hour suborbital course to test materials which might be used on future manned spaceships which will manoeuvre and land like aircraft. The winged research craft landed in the Atlantic Ocean about 2750 miles south-east of the cape. Press, Volume CIV, Issue 30688, 2 March 1965, Page 8
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