Nov 30 1963
From The Space Library
GSFC announced negotiations with the Marine Engineering Dept. of Northrop-Nortronics on a contract for design and construction of a huge 230-ton test chamber to simulate the launch phase of space flight for test of unmanned spacecraft and their components. The chamber would duplicate as nearly as possible the environmental conditions and the separate or combined conditions of acceleration, noise, vibration, and vacuum. The Launch Phase Simulator was expected to cost approximately $1.9 million. (GSFC Release G-27-63)
Japan sent a note of protest to the U.S.S.R. in reaction to the Soviet announcement of Nov. 29 designating two areas in the Pacific as test areas for a new series of Russian rocket launchings from Dec. 2, 1963, through Jan. 25, 1964. Japan reserved the right to claim damages if any were incurred by Japanese as a result of the tests. (AP, Wash. Eve. Star, 11/30/63)
Two Soviet Ilyushin-18 transport aircraft completed 15,000-mile flight from Moscow to the Russian Antarctic base of Mirny. Director of the Leningrad Polar Institute, A. Treshnokov, said in New Zealand that such flights might well inaugurate regular supply flights between Moscow and the Antarctic. (Reuters, Wash. Post, 12/1/63, A29)
Soviet Army newspaper Red Star reported an account of a rocket failure, the first public mention of a rocket launching failure in the U.S.S.R. No date or program was named, only a report of heroism of a Lt. Col. Serebreynnikov. He reportedly pulled out a starting plug by hand after mechanism had failed, and only six seconds before the rocket exploded. (AP, Wash. Post, 12/1/63, A35)
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