Hi Ted Although I have some early issues of Spaceflight- including Vol 1 No 1- I dont appear to have the issue you want - sorry. However in your search for photographs of Sputnik 1 rocket do you have the one taken by Dr.W.S.Finsen of the then Union Observatory on the evening of 1st November 1957 ? It appears on page 75 of the book "Living amongst the Stars at the Johannesburg Observatory" by Dirk Vermeulen in March 2006 in Fig 94. Its of reasonable quality but has no timing information. However I have a large number of newspaper press cuttings from that period that might give extra information. In addition it should be possible to contact the author of the book through the publisher Chris van Rensburg Publications (pty) Ltd at cvrpub@mweb.co.za. In addition I may still have the email address of the author as I provided some photographs/information used as I spent the first five years of my professional astronomical career at this observatory-by which time its name had changed to REPUBLIC OBSERVATORY. I can easily scan the photograph and can hunt further if you are not aware of this. Dr Finsen ( now deceased) was very much engaged in the early days of Sputnik 1 and successors and provided predictions for South Africa in the press and radio - this is how I was able to observe the Sputnik 1 rocket - unfortunately I did not photograph it :-(( Cheers Greg _______________________________________________ Seesat-l mailing list http://mailman.satobs.org/mailman/listinfo/seesat-l
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