Jan 19 1961
From The Space Library
Report of the Space Science Board of the National Academy of Sciences stated that life in some form on other planets of the solar system may possibly exist, but that evidence of this is not available today.
Iris rocket, new solid-propellant single-stage sounding rocket, failed to attain programed flight from [[Wallops Island]], reaching only 86 miles' altitude instead of 160 miles.
NASA selected Hughes Aircraft Co. for placing of a major subcontract by Jet Propulsion Laboratory to build seven Surveyor spacecraft designed for soft landings on the Moon.
Marshall Space Flight Center awarded contract to Douglas and Chance Vought to study launching manned exploratory expedition into lunar and interplanetary space from Earth orbits.
Federal Communications Commission allocated a radio fre-quency to the American Telephone & Telegraph Co. to estab-lish the first space satellite communications link between Europe and the United States on an experimental basis, a program calling for NASA launching of a series of experimental communication satellites capable of relaying telephone calls, television programs, and other messages across the Atlantic.
NASA announced indefinite suspension of the programing of the wide-angle camera in Tiros II, the experimental weather observation satellite launched on November 23, 1960.
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