May 1 1961
From The Space Library
NASA Administrator Webb issued a statement concerning the 2-year Mercury manned space flight program, which said, in part: "NASA has not attempted to encourage press coverage of the first Mercury-Redstone manned flight. It has responded to press and television requests, with the result that over 100 representatives of the press, radio, and TV are now at Cape Canaveral. We must keep the perspective that each flight is but one of the many milestones we must pass. Some will completely succeed in every respect, some partially, and some will fail From all of them will come mastery of the vast new space environment on which so much of our future depends."
May Day parade in Red Square, Moscow, reviewed by Maj. Yuri A. Gagarin beside Premier Khrushchev.
Tiros operations at Belmar, N.J., terminated to begin move of equipment to Wallops Station, Virginia.
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