The days when they seemed to think meteor's were the answer to the solution to space flight. How they managed to see from the earth those only 20 inches in diameter I don't know, or how the rockets caught up with them and then matched their speed is anyones' guess. Sending three piloted V2's each with a "scoop" to catch them was completely mad. How one managed to land on earth near to the control centre, is a mystery. When I say land, I mean crash, with the one astronaut looking fine in the crashed rocket. Oh yes and nothing on fire whatsoever. All this to get a small meteor for surface analysis. The whole thing was total baloney. Apart from that it was obviously early days in how to get into space, long time before the Saturn rocket was developed. Oh and no need to study any meteor's as this was irrelevant. Also the comment that the moon was turning to dust due to cosmic radiation was also rubbish.
Review of Riders to the Stars
