Aug 16 1962
From The Space Library
Adlai E. Stevenson, U.S. Ambassador to the stated in letter to the Senate that. the communications satellite bill "provides the President and the executive branch of this Government with adequate control and influence to ensure that the instrument proposed here can be fitted or adapted to an international system when we learn enough to design one." D. Brainerd Holmes, NASA Director of Manned Space Flight, said that Astronaut Walter M. Schirra, Jr., probably would make his orbital flight (MA-8) the middle or end of September. Speaking at the Lunar Exploration Conference in Blacksburg, Va., Mr. Holmes made it clear that. the success of recent Soviet prolonged manned space flights would not change the six-orbit mission of Commander Schirra.
H.R. 12812, bill to amend the National Aeronautics and Space Act of 1958 regarding property rights in inventions by private companies under NASA contract, was reported from the House Committee on Science and Astronautics.
DOD activated NRL's huge radar system near Chesapeake Beach, Md. Central feature of system was 150-ft.-diameter antenna, capable of obtaining signals from small aircraft or satellites from as far as 1,200 miles away and of receiving very strong signals from the moon (240,000 miles away). Radar would be used solely for research purposes.
Soviet Defense Minister, Marshal Rodin Malinovsky, declared in message to Cosmonauts Nikolayev and Popovich published in Krasnaya Zvezda: "Let our enemies know what techniques and what soldiers our Soviet power disposes of." S-IV stage of Saturn C-1 launch vehicle was Successfully static-fired for first time in 10-sec. test at Sacramento, Calif., facility of Douglas Aircraft Co. First flight test of the liquid-hydrogen/ liquid-oxygen-powered upper stage would be made in 1963.
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