U.S. SPACE PROGRESS

Press, Volume CV, Issue 31003, 8 March 1966, Page 11

U.S. SPACE PROGRESS

Display In Shop A display which outlines the evolution of United States space research is at present on show in the Colombo street windows of J. Ballantyne and Company. Ltd. It has heen organised through the courtesy of the United States Embassy in Wellington. The exhibition consists of 34 photographs and 13 small models of satellites. It depicts the role being played by America, in co-operation with ether countries, in the search for knowledge and progress through space science. The photographs begin in the year 1926 when Dr. R. H. Goddard, an American professor, launched the world’s first liquid fuel rocket which travelled 184 ft. They go on to show what has been achieved in space research so far. and the practical application of this research in such fields as meteorology and global communications. The last photograph deals with the Apollo project and after. The small models are accurate reproductions of such satellites as Telstar, Syncron Tiros. Nimbus, and the experimental Mariner. Also on view are the three capsules used in the manned space flight programme—Mercury, Gemini and the Apollo. The exhibition will remain 1n the windows for the next two weeks after which it will be packed and sent to Palmerston North. The display has been seen only in Auckland end Wellington before it was brought to Christchurch.