Feb 1 1962
From The Space Library
NASA announced that MA-6 manned orbital flight would be scheduled no earlier than February 13. Repair of leak in Mercury-Atlas fuel tank would be completed by then.
Dr. William H. Pickering, Director of JPL, predicted in a press conference at Sunnyvale, Calif., that one of the next two attempts to impact the moon with a Ranger spacecraft would be a partial success. He reported that RANGER III was now more than 500,000 miles from the earth and moving into a solar orbit at 2,600 mph.
Ten members of NASA's Office of Advanced Research and Technology, headed by 'Thomas F. Dixon, Deputy Associate Administrator, visited MSFC.
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