Dec 4 1961
From The Space Library
Ambassador Adlai Stevenson introduced a resolution before the U.N.'s Political Committee for a U.N. space program guided by four considerations: (1) Application of the principles of international law to outer space and celestial bodies to ensure against sovereignty claims in space; (2) making the U.N. a clearinghouse for use of outer space, including information on satellite launchings and cooperation for peaceful use of outer space; (3) international cooperation on weather satellite information; (4) international cooperation on communications satellites.
Ambassador Stevenson said: "There is a right way and a wrong way to get on with the business of space exploration. In our judgment, the wrong way is to allow the march of science to become a runaway race into the unknown.
"The right way is to make it an ordered, peaceful and cooperative and constructive forward march under the aegis of the United Nations." Reported from Cape Canaveral that Astronaut John H. Glenn, Jr., had moved into "ready room" quarters. NASA had made no announcement whether a man would ride in the next Mercury capsule.
USAF fired a Blue Scout rocket from Point Arguello, Calif., aimed at a point some 27,600 miles out in space and over the South Pole, to measure low-energy protons originating from the Sun.
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