Dec 20 1960
From The Space Library
USAF DISCOVERER XIX successfully launched into polar orbit from PMR carrying Project Midas test payload.
President-elect Kennedy announced that Vice President-elect Lyndon B. Johnson would chair the National Aeronautics and Space Council.
Founded in 1912 by Glenn L. Martin, the Martin Co. delivered its last airplane, a P511-2, to the Navy, having produced more than 12,000 aircraft and entering the missile/space business with the NRL Viking research rocket in 1948.
Second stage of near-operational Titan ICBM failed to ignite over Cape Canaveral.
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