Jan 20 1961
From The Space Library
United States and United Kingdom signed formal agree-ment covering minitrack station at Winkfield, England.
Under NASA contract, United Technology Corp. successfully completed ground tests of three 15,000-pound thrust segmented solid-propellant rockets. Each was made up of three 1,000-pound sections which were joined prior to firing.
NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center (MSFC) awarded con-tracts to North American Aviation and Ryan Aeronautical to develop paraglider recovery system for the Saturn booster, based upon concept developed by Francis M. Rogallo of NASA's Langley Research Center.
Headline news in Moscow was detailed Tass announcement that Strelka, one of two female dogs recovered from orbiting Spacecraft II in August 1960, had given birth to six puppies in good health. Pravda had announced 3 weeks earlier that one of the satellite-passenger dogs had given birth.
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