Dec 5 1962
From The Space Library
U.S. and U.S.S.R. announced in U.N. their bilateral agreement to cooperate in space exploration programs of weather observation, magnetic-field study, and satellite communications. In meteorology, agreement called for experimental phase extending through 1964 "during the development of experimental weather satellites" by both countries; second phase would begin approximately 1964-65 with coordinated launchings by both countries of weather satellite system for operational use. In magnetic survey, agreement called for U.S. and U.S.S.R. each to launch a satellite equipped with magnetometers during International Year of the Quiet Sun (IQSY), 1964-65. Both countries agreed t o use the intervening years to continue their own magnetic measurement research and to exchange the data obtained. In satellite communications, agreement called for U.S. mid U.S.S.R. to cooperate during coming year in communications experiments via U.S. passive communications satellite Echo A-12. Future negotiations would consider cooperative efforts in experimental system of active-repeater satellites. Agreement provided that "the results of these cooperative experiments would be made freely available to all interested states," U.S. Ambassador to the U.N. Adlai Stevenson said. Agreement was product of Geneva negotiations between U.S. team headed by Dr. Hugh L. Dryden, NASA Deputy Administrator, and Soviet team headed by Prof. Anatoli A. Blagonravov, conducted in spring of 1962.
Nike-Cajun launched from NASA Wallops Station carried electron-density and temperature instrumentation to 80-mi. altitude, as part of current series of upper-atmosphere studies.
Sodium-vapor experiment launched with Nike-Apache vehicle from NASA Wallops Station was not successful because the payload did not perform properly. Flight was part of current upper-atmosphere studies being conducted by NASA Goddard Space Flight Center.
Committee for International Year of the Quiet Sun (IQSY), meeting in London, approved worldwide research program to be conducted during 1964-65 period of minimum solar activity. Proposed program included multi-nation participation in such research areas as meteorology, geomagnetism, aurora, airglow, ionosphere, solar activity, cosmic rays, and aeronomy. Project was outgrowth of International Geophysical Year (IGY), 1957-58, considered highly successful both in scientific results and in international cooperation.
John Dykstra, president of Ford Motor Co., told American Ordnance Association meeting that a great potential defense capability lay untapped in industry—particularly in heavy, mass-producing manufacturing. Asserting that the problem of developing and maintaining broad defense and space capability throughout industry had not been adequately realized or defined, Dykstra suggested reorganizing U.S. productive resources and putting "much more of our heavy manufacturing industry in a state of preparedness to switch readily from peacetime to wartime production. Such preparedness would mean, at a minimum, that heavy industry would be kept current in matters of defense technology in areas of natural interest to it. Such preparedness could also involve a broader distribution of space and defense research and development effort, as well as of production, on a systematic basis. . . .
"Whatever form an Industrial National Guard might take, I believe the concept is essential. In view of the enormous demands now being made on all our resources of brainpower, we cannot afford to make less than the best possible economic and efficient use of them. . . ." Titan I ICBM was successfully fired 4,000 mi. down the PMR in test of recently modified ground support equipment. This was sixth Titan I launch from Vandenberg AFB.
Rear Adm. Luis de Florez died at age 73; he had been instrumental in 1945 "Project Paperclip" to ensure German scientists and engineers would come to U.S.
Nine Soviet cosmonauts were lost in space between February 1959 and October 1961, it was reported by Oton Ambroz of North American Newspaper Alliance (NANA). Article, relying heavily on European sources, claimed five cosmonauts were sent on orbital space flights from which they did not return; two cosmonauts, a man and woman, orbited in a single spacecraft May 17, 1961, but did not return; and two cosmonauts, man and woman, were sent on lunar flight Oct. 14, 1961. Conversations of the dual flights were reportedly monitored by Western receivers; signal from a single cosmonaut ("World--S.O.S.—S.O.S.") was received Nov. 28, 1960. Other flights were based on reception of physiological, tracking, and other signals. None of the flights was reported by U.S.S.R. and NASA had no comment on the report.
Upon returning to Sweden from Moscow, Swedish scientist Bjoern Malmgren reported that two Soviet cosmonauts were being trained in Swedish-built centrifuge for a trip around the moon and back. Malmgren reported Soviet space officials told him the venture was planned for late next year.
USAF' Atlas missile flight-test series was completed with successful Atlas F (flight 5,000 mi. down AMR. witnessing the launch was "father" of the Atlas-Karel J. Bossart, project engineer at GD/A since five-engine Atlas Development was initiated in 1946. DOD canceled program in 1947 and subsequently redesigned the ICBM to three-engine configuration, first flight-tested June 11, 1957. Since then 151 Atlases were launched (105 of them from AFMTC) with 108 successes. Future Atlas missiles launched from Cape Canaveral would be involved in space-probe missions or in testing nose cones.
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