My Weekly Reader 1962 Nov 5 and Dec 3

 

I continue with my history of the space race week by week through the eyes of My Weekly Reader. Both of these are from the 2nd grader edition.

Even without anything new to say My Weekly Reader kept feeding the 2nd graders space race content. I actually had not heard of the Anna satellite before I read this.  

From Wikipedia: ANNA 1B (acronym for "Army, Navy, NASA, Air Force") was a United States satellite launched on October 31, 1962, from Cape Canaveral, on a Thor-Ablestar rocket. The mission profile involved ANNA serving as a reference for making precise geodetic surveys, allowing measurement of the force and direction of the gravity field of Earth, locating the middle of land masses and establishing surface positions.