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Old 08-10-2008, 02:06 PM
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This Month in Model Rocket History August 1958


8/58 CAA/B becomes the FAA

8/58 Christian Science Monitor "Amateur Rocketry Boosted by Army"

8/58 Hartford Courant newspaper "Backyard Rocketry Risky For Amateurs-California Experts List Equipment Needed For Reasonably Safe Firing"

8/58 American Modeler EXPERT Advice for Amateur Rocketry Kendall Hoyt

8/58 NY Times ARMY SETS ROCKET AID; Will Help Amateurs to Fire Test Devices Safely

8/58 LA Times Science Fiction, Rocket Groups Convening Here Presentation of Awards and Costume Ball Highlight Sessions; Amateurs Tell Woes

8/58 Model Airplane News "How Safe are Rockets?" William Winter

8/24/58 24 August 1958: Attempted orbit of Explorer-V satellite (37.16 pounds with 25.76 pounds of payload) failed because booster collided with second stage after separation, causing upper stage firing angle to be off (kinda sounds like what happened to the recent Falcon-)

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