Jul 7 1961
From The Space Library
USAF Discoverer XXVI orbited from Vandenberg Air Force Base, carrying instrument capsule to be recovered after 32 polar orbits and 4 days. Of the 25 previous Discoverers, 17 had gone into orbit and 15 carried recovery capsules, of which 5 had been recovered.
The second static firing of the Saturn SA–T2 test booster was successfully completed at Marshall Space Flight Center in an eight engine test of 119 seconds' duration.
Atlas E, launched from Cape Canaveral, established distance flight record of 9,050 miles, its nose cone landing 1,000 miles southeast of Cape Town, South Africa.
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