May 22 1962
From The Space Library
OSO I ceased transmission after 1,138 orbits (launched March 7), having produced for 77 days and provided 200 miles of scientific data tape. It observed and measured over 75 solar flares and subflares.
X-15 No. 1 flown in air flow study to au altitude of 97,000 ft. and a top speed of 3,477 mph (mach 5.1), piloted by Maj. Robert A. Rushworth (USAF).
Combined U.S.-U.S.S.R. proposal for $100 million world-wide weather research program, including the use of earth satellites, was presented to a panel of the World Meteorological Organization (WMO) by Harry Wexler, Research Director of the U.S. Weather Bureau, and Viktor Bogayev, Ass't. Director of the Soviet Hydrometrical Service, in Geneva, Switzerland. Proposed plan, if approved by the WMO Executive Committee, would then be considered by UNESCO.
Navy Astronautics Group established at PMR its first space satellite command, to operate the Transit navigational satellite system. In addition to the headquarters at Point Mugu, the command will eventually encompass a satellite command and ejection station, computer center, operations control center, and satellite tracking facility at Point Mugu, and other tracking facilities at Winter Harbor, Maine; Minneapolis, Mimi.; and Wahiawa on Oahu, Hawaii.
First display of FRIENDSHIP 7 capsule in Belgrade, Yugoslavia. When President Tito viewed it he said: "I was under the impression when I saw the documentary film that the capsule was larger but it's fantastic . . ." National Committee for a Sane Nuclear Policy made public the request of eleven scientists who had petitioned President Kennedy to postpone the projected explosion of a hydrogen device in space. They had urged that the project be deferred until it could be reviewed by the Consultative Group on Potentially Harmful Effects of Space Experiments of COSPAR.
The Air Force Cambridge Research Laboratories launched a 150-foot balloon made of .001-inch-thick plastic. The test, intended to provide data for better research balloons, would send the balloon to an altitude of 117,000 feet for a fifty-hour period.
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