Feb 22 1962
From The Space Library
Before the 3rd West Coast Reliability Symposium, Dr. Landis S. Gephart, NASA’s Director of Reliability and Quality Assurance Office, said that the U.S. has "reliability requirements greater than our record of achievements to date will satisfy." He pointed out that when Saturn-class vehicles will cost an estimated $20 to $30 million a launch, neither NASA or the nation can tolerate a "batting average of 500." Dr. Gephart then discussed three publications NASA was issuing in connection with contracts to ensure tighter quality control for NASA hardware.
In speech before the Woman's National Press Club, Adlai Stevenson, U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations, said that the U.S., U.S.S.R., and other qualified nations should pool their space efforts under the auspices of the United Nations. "Perhaps their children," he said, "will sail to Mars together." First International Woman's Space Symposium held at Los Angeles, Shirley Thomas as chairman.
The National Center for Space Studies of France, headed by Pierre Auger, released a summary of its 1962 space. program: launching of sounding rockets containing a rat and later a eat to 125 miles altitude; research observations of the sun and various planets; and telecommunications experiments. France would also cooperate in a joint satellite project with the U.S. and participate in the European Organization for Space Research.
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