Apr 21 1962
From The Space Library
Fifth attempt to launch NASA's Centaur space booster was canceled at the last second at AMR. Engines on the Atlas first stage had been ignited when an automatic detection device spotted a malfunction and shut off the engines.
Sir Frederick Handley Page, British aviation pioneer, and chairman and managing director of Handley Page Ltd., died in London at age 76. Inventor of the slotted wing, he provided England with its first bombers in 1915 and his Halifax bomber of World War II, of which more than 60,000 were produced, was a key weapon of RAF Bomber Command.
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