May 15 1962
From The Space Library
In testimony before Subcommittee of the House Science and Astronautics Committee, Dr. Homer E. Newell reviewed history of NASA's geodetic satellite project, which had been requested in the FY 1960 budget. In mid-1960, DOD recommended the geodetic satellite program be classified, which was approved by the Unmanned Space Panel of the NASA/DOD AACB in August 1960. Thus was created Project Anna, declassified at the COSPAR meeting in Washington on April 27, 1962.
NASA witnesses testified before a subcommittee of the House Science and Astronautics Committee that Centaur rocket development administration had in recent months been streamlined. Problems in the program were attributed to too austere a budget at the start, "growing pains" of a new organization, and unexpected technical difficulties in utilizing high-energy liquid hydrogen as a rocket fuel.
Dr. Knox Millsaps, Executive Director of the USAF’s Office of Scientific Research, stated that 547 basic research projects in North America, South America, and Europe have been funded by OSR at more than $23.3 million so far this fiscal year.
Astronaut Scott Carpenter flew simulated MA-7 mission in "Aurora 7" capsule mated to Atlas booster.
USAF announced that an unidentified satellite using a Thor-Agena B booster was launched from Vandenberg AFB.
Prof. Pierre Auger, executive secretary of the Preparatory Committee of the European Space Research Organization (ESRO) and the European Launcher Development Organization (ELDO), stated that plans called for the expenditure of $100 million a year. Program headquartered in Paris would parallel the work of the U.S.'s NASA, sans man-in-space activity. An important part of its program would be cooperation with other international and national organizations, especially NASA, from which satellites and launchers might be obtained. A new firing range at Kiruna, Sweden, is envisaged for firings in the northern auroral zone.
Naval Ordnance Laboratory announced use of Loki launch tube attached to the barrel of a 5-inch/54 naval rifle to launch the Hasp (high altitude sounding rocket) for weather soundings from ships anywhere at sea.
USAF announced transfer of AFSC’s Ballistic Systems Division this summer from West Los Angeles to Norton AFB, San Bernardino, Calif., to be completed by summer of 1963.
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