Feb 18 1962
From The Space Library
NASA announced Project Fire, a high-speed re-entry heat research program to obtain data on materials, heating rates, and radio signal attenuation on spacecraft re-entering the atmosphere at speeds of about 24,500 mph. Information from the program would provide technology for manned and unmanned re-entry from lunar missions. Under management of Langley Research Center, Project Fire would use Atlas D boosters and the re-entry velocity package would be powered by Antares solid-fuel motor (3rd stage of the Scout).
NASA Administrator James E. Webb, Assistant Administrator Hiden T. Cox, and other NASA speakers addressed the annual convention of the American Association of School Administrators. Mr. Webb said: "Space science and space exploration have become an integral and vital part of a great industrial and technological revolution which is now taking place in our own country and throughout the world . . . [the] rapid rate of change as much as the change itself is one of the dominant facts of our time." Dr. Cox outlined NASA’s program of educational services to meet the needs of education in and for the Space Age.
Four time-to-climb records claimed by USAF Northrup T-38 Talon supersonic trainer.
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