PVK wrote in
:

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.