Apr 28 1962
From The Space Library
USAF launched unidentified satellite with Thor-Agena Booster, the fourth unidentified satellite reported launched from Vandenberg AFB in ten days.
Second NASA Nike-Cajun probe with Japanese payload was canceled for third time because of high winds at Wallops Island.
First details of an orbital space station under feasibility study, one shaped like a doughnut and inflated once in orbit, revealed at Langley Research Center. Design of space stations had begun in November 1960 at Langley. Paul Hill, chief of the Applied Materials and Physics Division, stated that structures were now under study which could hold from four to thirty people.
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