Jun 14 1960
From The Space Library
AEC's SNAP-2 Experimental Reactor (SER) reached 147,300 kilowatt-hours of operation at design temperatures and power during which 1,000 hours of continuous operation was attained.
NASA announced creation of Launch Operations Directorate (LOD) to become operational on July 1, to be headed by Dr. Kurt Debus of Marshall Space Flight Center, who headed the Army launch operations of EXPLORER I and the first American payload to orbit the sun, PIONEER IV.
Small explosive charge ignited flare package on side of Titan ICBM at AMR, causing first missile fatality (J. O. Sibole) in 10 years of missile launchings at Cape Canaveral.
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