Dec 8 1961
From The Space Library
NASA selected Mason-Rust as the contractor to provide support services at NASA's Michoud plant near New Orleans, providing housekeeping services through June 30, 1962, for the three contractors who would produce the Saturn S–I and S–IB boosters and the Rift nuclear upper-stage vehicle.
USAF fired an Aerobee sounding rocket from Point Arguello, Calif., out over the Pacific 1,300 miles high and 900 miles toward Hawaii, at which point the rocket released three sets of flares to be photographed from California, Hawaii, and Alaska. Purpose was to provide a more precise knowledge of the location of Hawaii with respect to the North American mainland by means of photogrammetric triangulation of the flare photos.
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