Nov 18 1961
From The Space Library
Ranger II placed into low orbit from Atlantic Missile Range by Atlas, but Agena second stage did not restart, leaving deep-space probe Ranger in parking orbit. Results reported to delay lunar-landing Ranger shot in early 1962.
NASA announced that record Argo D-8 vehicle was launched with Bios payload from Point Arguello, but reentry capsule beacon signal had not been acquired by down-range recovery forces.
Evidence of traces of living things in meteorites from space reaching Earth, reported in Nature magazine by George Claus of NYU and Bartholomew Nagy of Fordham, based upon discovery of five types of "organized structure" in the Orgueil meteorite found in southern France in 1864, and the Ivuna meteorite that fell in central Africa in 1938.
Reported from Moscow that U.S.S.R. was planning to orbit a man around the Moon in 1962, and that the U.S.S.R. had ICBM's in being with 100-megaton warheads.
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