Aug 19 1962
From The Space Library
National Aviation Day, commemorating the birth in 1871 of Orville Wright in Dayton, Ohio.
NASA launched Scout vehicle from Wallops Island in flight experiment to make direct measurements of radiative heating during atmospheric entry.
Project to beam U.S. messages from New York to Soviet Union via TELSTAR failed when relay station at Pleumeur-Bodou, France, malfunctioned.
In NBC TV interview, Dr. F. J. Krieger, specialist of the RAND Corporation on Soviet space affairs, pointed out that the 50th anniversary of the Communist Revolution in Russia was in 1967, and that that year may be the political target date for the accomplishment of a Soviet lunar landing mission.
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