The Corona lie and the popular media

I've been researching Newsreel footage from 1959 and 1960 to see if how far this DISCOVERER cover story extended into the media. Amidst the hundreds of newsreels that year this one was of paticular intrest.


1959/05/21 Space Mice. Plan 'Live" Satellite in 1st Recovery Test (1) Discoverer III to carry live mice, Satellite assembled,"far reaching radar will track satellite" and flying boxcar will capture the satellite (partial newsreel) Source: 200 universal 32-41 National Archives, College Park MD.



(to my knowledge this is not an actual space mouse.)