Mar 27 1961
From The Space Library
Budget Director David E. Bell made known to Joint Economic Committee of Congress that the new administration would request for fiscal year 1962 $125.67 million more for NASA (in addition to previous $1,110 million) and $65 million more for the National Science Foundation (additional to $210 million).
President Kennedy initiated actions to speed up the development of large boosters.
Dr. Carl Sagan, of the University of California, suggested that the seeding of the atmosphere of Venus with algae might alter its atmosphere to support human life.
Its instruments recording a magnetic impulse, Explorer X became the first satellite to measure the shock wave generated by a solar flare.
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