Aug 23 1962
From The Space Library
Nike-Apache launch vehicle carried 63-lb. payload to approximately 80-mi.-altitude from NASA Wallops Station, in experiment to measure ion concentration and composition in the upper atmosphere. Impact occurred approximately 67 mi. from the launch site, and no attempt was made to recover the payload. Experiment was conducted by NASA Goddard Space Flight Center in cooperation with Lockheed Missile and Space Co.
USAF launched an unidentified satellite with a Blue Scout booster from Point Arguello, Calif.
Electricians began to return to work at NASA Marshall Space Flight Center, Huntsville, Ala., after a ten-day walkout. Estimated 70% of total construction work-force, including workers of other trades who had refused to cross electricians' picket lines, had returned to work. Hearing on the strike by President's Missile Sites Labor Commission was scheduled for August 27.
International Edition of New York Times contained articles (about 5,000 words) transmitted from New York to Paris via TELSTAR satellite.
First attempted live radio broadcast between U.S. and Europe via TELSTAR satellite was unsuccessful because of failing radio connections between Boston broadcasting Station and Andover, Maine, relay station. Boston station received, but could not understand, Swedish message; Sweden station did not receive message from Boston. TELSTAR performed perfectly, however.
Two new sources of radiation in the Milky Way had been discovered by USAF Aerobee probe on June 18, physicist Riccardo Giacconi announced at Third International Symposium on X-Ray Optics and X-Ray Microanalysis, Stanford University. Giacconi said that knowledge of x-ray emissions was valuable because this kind of radiation was "intimately connected with the creation and behavior of cosmic rays and the properties of a galaxy. . . ." Discovery and investigation of such x-rays would "further understanding of the origin and dynamics of the universe . . . and may have a bearing on the study of communication of matter between galaxies." A second probe was planned for launch on October 2, to investigate the discoveries.
Soviet Cosmonaut Pavel R. Popovich, in an interview on Moscow television, was asked if he had seen God in space during his recent orbital flight in VOSTOK IV, and he replied: "Yes, I can confirm this. I have seen God. I asked his surname and he replies, `Nikolayev, Andrian Grigorevich.' "
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