One after another last week, a flock of Cape Canaveral's biggest birds climbed above their own flaming tails and soared toward space. Both by their failures and by their successes they carried U.S. spacemen closer to their most urgent target: the far-off moon.
Success & Statistics. Saturn, the largest of U.S. missiles now ready for flight, and the one officially designated to take U.S. astronauts on their first flight as far out as the moon, passed its second test in a row with a perfect score. Its cluster of eight liquid-fuel engines lifted the...
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