The Key West citizen

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servers plot its course. Then

crews of waiting Cll9 planes saw

the chute, followed the capsule

down and circled above the spot.

The Air Force plan was to

snatch the chute and capsule into

one of the Cll9’s, but scattered

clouds caused trouble and a sea

recovery was required. A heli

copter from the MSTS ship Haiti

Victory picked up the capsule and

flew it back to the ship, which

then headed for Hawaii.

Successful recovery of the un

damaged capsule buoyed hopes of

space scientists working on both

the man-in-space program and the

Samos sky-spy satellite.

The Samos is now being devel

oped to send back by television

what its camera eyes see as it

scouts the face of the earth. But

eventually it is hoped that actual

films can be sent back to earth

by capsule to provide much clear

er pictures than television could

furnish.

It was No. 13 of the Discoverer

satellite series which brought luck

to the Air Force. Some of the

previous launchings had failed to

put satellites into orbit. Some

went into orbit but failed to eject

the capsule or ejected it in the

wrong direction. x

But Thursday everything

worked. And the United States

thus was the first, so far as is

known, to bring back a package

from a satellite. The Soviet Union

like the United States, ha: recov

ered nose cones and capsules of

missiles fired aloft in convention

al missile trajectory.

In a midnigi news conference

at the Pentagon, Lt. Gen. Bernard

Schriever, boss of the Air Force's

Air Research Development Com

mand, was as elated as the cau

How to cite this articleCómo citar este artículo

The Key West citizen. (1960). Key West, Fla., 1960-08-12. Haiti in the American Press. Library of Congress, Chronicling America: https://www.loc.gov/resource/sn83016244/1960-08-12/ed-1/?sp=1

ReferencesReferencias

Library of Congress, Chronicling America: The Key West citizen, 1960-08-12.