Feb 14 1961
From The Space Library
NASA Nike-Cajun rocket launched from Wallops Station, carrying 60-pound payload ejecting explosive charges, which fired at intervals from 20- to 80-mile altitude to provide data on density of the atmosphere.
Last of second series of static firings of Saturn completed at Marshall Space Flight Center for 110 seconds, approximately full duration.
President Kennedy congratulated Premier Khrushchev on the Soviet Union's "impressive scientific achievement" in launching a space probe toward the planet Venus. Kurt Stehling stated that the U.S. would not catch up with the Soviets as long as they continued to build bigger rockets. New York Times
NASA selected Flight Propulsion Department, General Electric, for negotiation of 18-month contract to study heatflow characteristics of fluids in nuclear powerplants.
NASA and United Kingdom agreed to establish joint program to test communications satellites to be launched by NASA in 1962 and 1963 in Projects Relay and Rebound.
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