PVK <pv.kirkland@gmail.com> wrote in
news:RaednbQr995DSVbJnZ2dnUVZ8uSdnZ2d@giganews.com:
> Bearing in mind what was riding on those things, both literally and
> figuratively, the quality control and scrutiny must have been laborious.
> It's not as if they could take them for a test flight and correct any
> bugs afterwards.
>
> Thanks for the pics, Mitch
>
> Regards
> Paul
> Cambridge U.K.
>
Considering the disasterous first US
attempts at putting a satellite in orbit
the later launch vehicles (Redstone, Atlas,
Saturn and now Delta) have worked amazingly
well.
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