May 6 1962
From The Space Library
USAF Cambridge Research Lab reported record ten-day flight of superpressurized balloon at a constant altitude of 70,000 feet with a 40-lb. payload. Launched from Chico, Calif., on April 26, development balloon landed on command near Cedar City, Utah, and will lead to 20-day balloon flight experiments at. a constant altitude later this summer.
In the Third International Space Science Symposium sponsored by COSPAR, Jet Stevens Laboratory scientists W. K. Victor and Robertson Stevens reported that radar soundings of Venus suggest that its surface material and roughness are comparable to that of the earth. Radar probes of Venus have demonstrated that UHF signals can be used for space communications over distances of 50-75 million miles.
Astronaut John Glenn and Cosmonaut Gherman S. Titov appeared On ABC-TV program, "The Nation's Future." Col. Glenn pressed Major Titov on possible Soviet space mishaps, but no new information was forthcoming.
AFCRL scientists launched a second artificial meteor by means of a multistage rocket fired from Wallops Island. The meteor traveled at a re-entry speed of 12 kilometers per second, exceeding that. attained in the previous experiment of April 21, 1961.
"American Roulette 500 Miles Up" was the title of the article by Sir Bernard Lovell in the Sunday Observer (London), which repeated his arguments against the planned nuclear explosions by the U.S. over Johnston Island in June and July.
Cosmonaut Titov at the Seattle World's Fair said that he saw "no God or angels" during his 17 orbits of the earth.
Full flight test of Polaris missile with live warhead, the fifth U.S. atmospheric nuclear test in the current Operation Dominic series, fired from submerged U.S.S. Ethan Allen in Pacific test area. Reportedly the first U.S. firing of a missile with a live nuclear warhead, the shot was described by Navy spokesmen as a complete success.
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