Weighing fifty tons in its gantry, a Thor-Able-Star rocket is ready for a midnight launching at Cape Canaveral, Florida. A spectacular pioneering flight in which one missile will place three satellites in orbit - one of the satellites carrying the first nuclear device ever sent into space. The first stage of the two stage missile clicks efficiently and the history making rocket, which puts America back in the lead in the space race, is off into the night sky. The start of a 600 mile penetration of outer spa