I just watched 'The Arrow' last night. This movie about a Canadian company called Avro making the Arrow to thwart the Soviets during the Cold War. What an awesome story, and it's a true story. I highly recommend it.
I have alot more repsect for that NASA launch today having seen that film. Who knew the Canadians could contribute so much? ;)
It also really puts liberalism and conservatism in a different perspective. It almost seemed like they had it backwards in the late 50's compared to the US today. The conservatives opposed the military from what I gathered, but the PM was hard to read and follow. All I got was that the conservatives held the majority but the PM was liberal? :\
And why wouldn't they want to look at the thing after this flight?
I gotta beleive that it was tracked to a relatively small area - and why couldn't it have had a transponder?
Or maybe after 10 secs at Mach 10 it melted and is now a blob of titanium?