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Show Jennie Jo Cook Paulsen Woodside Miss Plans Marriage In Jusie Mr. and Mrs. Roy W. Cook of Woodside announce the engagement of their daughter, Jennie Jo Cook Paulsen, to First Lieutenant George L. Crowder, son of Mr. and Mrs. M^J. Croiwder, of Marissa, 1$. The wedding is set for June 12 at 10 a.m. in the Green-River Community church, with Reverend Arvin E. Johnson officiating. Miss Paulsen is a graduate qf Green River high school and has attended two years at the college in Gunnison, Colorado. She is presently employed at the cafeteria at the missile base. Lieutenant Crowder is a graduate of Washington University in St. Louis in electrical engineering. He is now assigned to the White Sands Missile Range, where the couple plan their new home after a honeymoon in Canada. •o 2 Salt Lake Tribune 29 Feb 6k 'Athena' No. 2 to Vault Of f Utah Launch Pad Special to The Tribune : NORTON AIR FORCE BASE, CALIF.-Sometime in March a second Athena missile will be fired toward White Sands, N.M., Missile Range from a launching site just outside Green River, Utah. Successful Shot Made Bv Missile ./ White Sands Missile Range, N.M. (AP) - The much-maligned and oft-troubled Athena missile finally made its first successful overland flight Wednesday after two previous failures. The four-stage, solid-fuel rocket, scavenged from existing missile systems, roared into the desert sky over Green River, Utah at 3:23 p.m. for the estimated 15-minute, 475-mile trip to White Sands. Neither the Air Force nor White Sands, which handled range safety and monitoring of the 33-foot rocket, would say how long the trip took. An Air Force spokesman said the missile carried one of a series of sub-scale experimental re-entry vehicles which is being tested as part of a program to develop advanced re-entry Vehicles for space travel and intercontinental ballistic missiles. The first and second stages of the test vehicle drove the missile to about 250,000 feet and the third and fourth stages drove the nose cone back into the atmosphere at a speed approaching that of an ICBM re-entering the atmosphere. The vehicle, built by Atlantic Research Corp., was launched by a mixed Air Force-Atlantic Research crew. No other launching dates were announced. Another 75 launches are set for the test series. H o 1-3 CQ THE ATHENA is a four-stage rocket. Its mission is to test ICBM reentry systems by simu-ating the high speed of an ICBM. The test also is expected to provide valuable information for antimissile defense. Some 77 launchings are pro-jammed. .THE FIEST Athena was fired Fell 10 from Green River. Five seconds after takeoff, however, an electrical box short circuit caused premature ejection of nose cone and payload. Parts landed south of Dur-ango, Colo., nearly 200 miles short of the impact target. THE EXACT date of the second firing has not been announced. However, the 'Ballistic Systems Division of the Air Force said Friday that a public announcement would be made three to four days before the launch. THE ATHENA was put together by Atlantic Research Corporation's Missile Systems Division. Make up of off-the-shelf parts, it will provide information on reentry problems at one-tenth the cost tha would have been required had real ICBMs been used. The first shot involved only the first two stages. Structure and weight of the third and fourth stages was simulated. THE SHORT circui was in a junction box. The loss of wiring caused by ejection of the nose cone and payload prevented separation of the first stage prior to ignition of the second stage motor. When the second stage motor ignited, it blasted off the stabilizing fins and the vehicle veered off course. |
