Aug 23 1961
From The Space Library
Ranger I test satellite of unmanned lunar spacecraft, launched from Atlantic Missile Range by Atlas D-Agena B into low parking orbit, but did not attain its programed eccentric orbit.
Maj. Gherman S. Titov, in his serialized account of his orbital flight in Pravda, described the state of weightlessness.
Saturn H-1 engine drop-tested into salt water at Cape Canaveral, then returned to Marshall Space Flight Center for inspecting, cleaning, and static firing.
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