Nov 24 1962
From The Space Library
USAF launched unnamed satellite from Vandenberg AFB with Thor-Agena B booster.
DOD announced selection of contractor for 22 test models of TFX aircraft (tactical fighter, experimental), the Convair Division of General Dynamics, with Grumman Aircraft Engineering Corporation as an associate. Based upon much work at Langley Research
Center, TFX fighter was designed in USAF and USN versions, having variable geometry wings for flight speeds up to 1,650 mph. Contract which would procure up to 1,500 aircraft was said to be bigger than "any fighter aircraft program since World War II in both numbers and dollars."
DOD issued restrictions, it was reported by L.A. Times, on assigning new contracts to strike-threatened Lockheed Aircraft Corp. pending settlement of its labor-management dispute.
Soviet astronomer Dr. Iosif Samuilovich Shklovsky, head of radio-astronomy department at Sternberg Astronomical Institute, Moscow, said in interview with western press that first place to seek signs of intelligent extraterrestrial life is in Andromeda Nebula. The spiral nebula is closest galaxy to our own Milky Way—about 1.5 million light years away. Reasoning that it was likely an advanced civilization should be able to harness enough energy from its sun to create a powerful radio beacon, and pointing out that no such beams had been detected from other parts of our own galaxy, Dr. Shklovsky said such beams could be detected by a single radiotelescope aimed at the entire Andromeda Nebula.
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