Xref: utzoo sci.space:31880 sci.astro:13915 Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!samsung!dali.cs.montana.edu!uakari.primate.wisc.edu!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!cis.ohio-state.edu!ucbvax!hplabs!dsmith From: dsmith@hplabs.hpl.hp.com (David Smith) Newsgroups: sci.space,sci.astro Subject: Re: IGY and the dawn of the Space Age Message-ID: <6064@hplabsb.hplabs.hpl.hp.com> Date: 18 Jun 91 15:57:02 GMT References: <1991Jun7.210944.22123@sequent.com> <30916@hydra.gatech.EDU> <140789@unix.cis.pitt.edu> <1991Jun17.235158.16273@sequent.com> Reply-To: dsmith@hplabsb.UUCP (David Smith) Followup-To: sci.space Organization: HPLabs Palo Alto, CA Lines: 29 In article jmc@cs.Stanford.EDU writes: >2. It required forbidding the von Braun group at Redstone from >launching a satellite based on the Jupiter IRBM rocket. >The von Braun group was ready much earlier. The von Braun group's launcher was based on the Redstone, despite the fact that they called it Jupiter-C. >3. It made the Explorer project one of minimal capability - >18 pounds - as compared to 200 and 2000 pounds for Sputniks >... >4. The shoestring Explorer project experience long delays >and then failed spectacularly twice two months after Sputnik. You're thinking of Vanguard, not Explorer. >5. The von Braun group was given the go-ahead after Sputnik >and successfully launched a satellite before the first >successful Explorer launch. Their satellite *was* the first Explorer launch. -- David R. Smith, HP Labs | "There are two kinds of truth. dsmith@hplabs.hp.com | There are real truths, (415) 857-7898 | and there are made-up truths." | - Marion Barry (USN&WR 12/31/90 p18)