Jul 14 1962
From The Space Library
NASA launched large balloon from site near Goose Bay, Labrador, carrying bioscience payload including two rhesus monkeys and four hamsters for primary cosmic radiation experiments. Balloon was expected to reach maximum altitude of 128,000 feet and to float some 2,000 miles to a landing near Edmonton, Alberta, Canada.
At Hyannis Port, Mass., President Kennedy issued a statement on disarmament calling for the Soviet Union to join in a "creative search for ways to end the arms race and to devote our common skills and resources to the enlargement of the peaceful opportunities to mankind. . . . In a nuclear age, all nations have a common interest in preserving their mutual security against the growing peril of the arms race. . ." Navy Hydrographic Office accepted delivery of modified Lockheed Super Constellation WV-2 to be used in Project Magnet, a worldwide survey for the improvement of sea and air navigation charts. Rear fuselage section was demagnetized and electrical circuits had been required to eliminate magnetic fields.
Cleveland educators pointed out that the new transatlantic communications prompted by TELSTAR and other satellites would be a tremendous incentive to foreign language study. Supervisor of Foreign Languages Eugene K. Dawson said: "I can think of nothing more exciting for our students than to hear direct broadcasts in the language they are studying." Cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin was promoted from major to It. colonel in the Soviet Air Force.
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