Jul 5 1961
From The Space Library
NASA announced awarding of study contract of Douglas Aircraft Co. for the development of orbital placement techniques and engineering design for Project Rebound inflatable spheres.
NASA awarded contract with Boeing to investigate the development of large Saturn-Nova class rockets employing different combinations of liquid or solid types of fuel.
Israel fired a multistage solid-propellant Shavit (Meteor) II rocket to an altitude of 80 kilometers, releasing a sodium-cloud meteorological payload.
Major Gagarin, speaking in Helsinki, Finland, stated that the U.S.S.R. would launch another manned space vehicle sometime before the end of the year.
French Foreign Ministry announced that West German Government had agreed in principle to participate in 12-nation program to construct launch satellites.
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