Jul 1 1962
From The Space Library
OSO I was transmitting continuous signals and 20% of real-time data was being acquired from each 95-min. orbit. During 11 weeks of near-perfect operation from launch on March 7 to May 22, OSO I transmitted 1,000 hours of scientific information. Before OSO less than an hour of solar phenomena data had been collected above the earth's atmosphere by all previous rocket-flight observations. OSO I had begun transmitting again on June 24, 1962.
State Department announced plan to incorporate its office of the Science Advisor into the main policy-making elements within the department. Based on recommendations by scientist Lloyd V. Berkner in his report "Science and Foreign Relations," the reorganization would make science a more important factor in the formulation and execution of U.S. foreign policy.
DOD opened Defense Research Office in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, to coordinate basic scientific research throughout. Latin America. Col. Leonard M. Orman (USA) headed the office and the Army Element., and Lt. Col. Charles J. Lyness (USAF) headed the Air Force Element. Also established, near the Defense Research Office, were NSF and NIH offices. U.S. Department of State would coordinate all the offices' activities.
About 350,000 undergraduates and graduate students attended college through the benefits of the National Defense Education Act during its 4-year program, Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare Abraham A. Ribicoff announced.
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