European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - June 20, 1958, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Feat u r e s e c t i on satellite program Analysed Pentagon releases figures on Progress since Russia launched her first sputnik by Elton a staff writer hfutok8 not Elton Prest chief it Maury what has feud Poluxt to the Field of few Sta up sputnik to has the government done since Russia revealed her leap in weaponry and satellite by launching the first sputnik than eight months ago very says Stuart Symington former Secretary of the air Force and present Sharp quite a Good says Secretary of defense Neil How would you measure the amount of Progress or the extent of the complacency into which Symington and some other Congress members charge the administration has settled in answer to a newsman the Pentagon has made available figures on the missile and satellite beginning with last when rus Sia launched her first contracts totalling about billion have been placed for missiles about million for space project equipment under the advanced research projects Agency Arpa of the defense for the month of october the department had obligated for mis Siles the figure for last the latest month was the Pentagon has a missile program for the next fiscal year of com pared with a obligations program in the year ending on june in space the approximate Luion in contracts is out of a presently available fund of with negotiations under Way which will commit the remainder of the As Well As about million More to be transferred front other a spokesman said that during this commitments should total about these Dollar figures Are evidence of intentions and the Index of Progress to actual building and using of hardware probably exists in the Field of the score is this might launching attempts have been three have the using its hits put two out of three into orbit one out of five Vanguard firings by the Navy has Russia has announced three sputnik including the big Loanda half sent up on May 15 and now rotating around the Russia quite pos Sibly had her own hut she want announced them and there has been no Public proof of one american rocket expert has Testi fied before a Senate committee that he would estimate the soviets used a rocket with a thrust of Between and 000 pounds to put sputnik i into the most powerful american rocket motor built so far develops about the significance of satellite is that it indicates the Progress in if Russia has a Hal million Pound rocket motor for satellite launching it Means that she probably has the same motor for her intercontinental Range ballistic defense department officials have said that much bigger motors Are planned for american missiles and but like the dollars committed to con tracts for something still to be these big motors Are still a defense official himself has just had something to say about rear adm John Deputy director of said that with the spectacular evidences of russian technological Excel Lence whirling about our it is difficult for a nation which is used to leading the world in these matters to be Content with the announcement that we Ore work ing very hard on Clark said further the United states will launch More satellites this year and in the years to but we must digest the fact that the russians Are ahead of us in this Field because of our late these years will not be made up Over night and the surest Way to remain forever behind is to be panicked into crash pro Grams of a glamorous nature and neglect picture of left shows to folds third satellite minus protective the stars and stripes up tin Basic work which will provide the foundation upon which to build a truly great and lusting we the to close the und be assured that close the Gap we will if to can keep interference such As Spe Cial interests and rivalries under control but it will require patience and it will require fortitude in the face of More russian where does the stand in its bal Listic missile program in the intermediate ballistic missiles enough develop mental work has been done so that two types Are in or going into the air Force Thor Irby is being produced on an Assembly a similar production line is being built for the a mys Jupiter Irby but neither now nor for some months will the defense depart ment know which of the two missiles is better or whether the Best features of the two should be in the Range ballistic missile icbms the air Force has two one under Way for two years longer than the the Atlas ballistic missile began undergoing test firing lust year the first firing of the Titan still is to most of the firings of the icbms Atlas to Date have been of limited measured in hundreds of exceeded by some of the More successful firings of the Irby the designers have deliberately held the icbms Range Down in preliminary like the some of the have gone nowhere when the Button the military declines to admit that there Are Complete it claims that from every even if the missile Burns up on the launching something is if there is indeed a letdown in the original sense of who is blame Symington Points to the where he says there is a Lack of decisive leadership and insists that the administration a fallen Back into its former Ostrich like state of 11