Jan 13 1962
From The Space Library
USAF DISCOVERER XXXVII launched from Vandenberg AFB but did not attain orbit.
NASA launched 2-stage Aerobee sounding rocket from Wallops Station to an altitude of 130 miles to obtain planning data for future solar physics projects.
Dr. Hans-Georg Clamann, Chief of Space Medicine at SAM, submitted that a mountain peak near the south pole of the moon may be the ideal location for a lunar base. Continuous sunlight would provide support for growing vegetation.
Reported from New York that three-day U.S.-British discussions on U.N. problems had devoted considerable time to problems of "the law of outer space." U.S. representatives indicated that the U.N. resolution of December covering "international cooperation and the peaceful uses of outer space" had extended international law to space. In view of this, the U.N. resolution destroyed any argument that surveillance satellites violate international law, as orbiting satellites are legally no different from operating a destroyer in international waters.
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