Project SCORE

摘要

Forty seven years ago the United States Air Force fired an entire Atlas missile into orbit, the famous Project SCORE (Signal Communications by Orbiting Relay Equipment) that broadcast the first human voice from outer space, President Eisenhower's Christmas message in December 1958. In this excerpt from Chapter 18 of Chuck Walker's new book, Atlas: The Ultimate Weapon (Apogee Books, 2005), the story of this remarkable achievement in the early Space Age is told through the words of several key participants.