Jun 19 1961
From The Space Library
Harmon International Aviator's Trophy for 1961 announced as going to three winners for the first time—X-15 rocket research airplane pilots: A. Scott Crossfield, of North American; Joseph A. Walker, of NASA, and Maj. Robert A. White, U.S. Air Force.
NASA announced contract with the National Research Corp. to determine whether six types of microbes can sustain simulated exposure to the space environment including ultrahigh vacuum, ultraviolet radiation, and fluctuating temperatures.
Yuri A. Gagarin reported in Pravda that "I was in the center of a whirl of flames" when his Vostok spacecraft reentered the atmosphere on April 12. His book, "Road to Outer Space," was being serialized in Pravda.
Legislature of the State of Alabama considered investment of $3 million in establishing a Space Research Institute at Huntsville as a joint University of Alabama and Auburn University center.
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