Nov 12 1962
From The Space Library
NASA Flight Research Center released photographs of "lifting body" experimental wingless craft to test landing techniques in gliding from altitudes as high as 5,000 ft. The 24-ft.- by-I 3-ft. craft would begin testing early in 1963, first with truck to tow it aloft and later with airplane as towing vehicle. Made mostly of plywood, the 500-lb. craft suggests shape of missile nose cone cut in half lengthwise.
FAA Administrator N. E. Halaby told International Air Transport Association meeting that British, French, and Soviet competition probably would force the U.S. to develop its own supersonic commercial airliner within 10 years.
Tave (Thor-Agena Vibration Experiment), flown with Thor-Agena launching ALOUETTE satellite on Sept. 29, measured low-frequency vibrations to Agena stage and spacecraft interfaces during Thor boost phase, it was reported. 'Tave provided ". . . data verifying the techniques used by Goddard and Lockheed in predicting the launch vibration environment of the Thor-Agena B rocket. Demonstration that these techniques were sound is most important in designing future experiments and structures for the Thor Agena vehicles," Goddard project experimenter James Nagy said. Goddard Space Flight Center had designed, built, tested, and shipped 200-lb. 'Tave in only 20 days.
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