Jun 27 1961
From The Space Library
Senate Aeronautical and Space Sciences Committee unanimously approved the administration's $1,782,300,000 budget for NASA in fiscal year 1962.
Eberhardt Rechtin, of Jet Propulsion Laboratory, questioned the Soviet calculations on the rotation speed of the planet Venus and the astronomical unit, and suggested that the Soviet scientists may have been influenced by earlier MIT studies (1958). Completion of extensive radar studies of Venus by Jet Propulsion Laboratory Goldstone, he submitted, provided more accurate information. The differing figures as reported are- U.S.S.R (1961): 9 to 11 days' rotation—A.U. 92,812,797 miles.
Jet Propulsion Laboratory (1961): About 225 days' rotation—A.U. 92,956,000 miles.
Eight-engine static test of Saturn SA–T2 of 29.9 seconds' duration successful at Marshall Space Flight Center.
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