Nov 6 1961
From The Space Library
NASA informed Marshall Space Flight Center that management of the Agena B vehicle system would be retained at Marshall Space Flight Center.
Department of Commerce issued a proposal by MIT researchers on a science information network, entitled "An Experimental Communications Center for Scientific and Technical Information" (OTS, AD-255626). Proposed network included newspapers as well as radio and TV and recommended further research on a specific network to process, identify and retrieve scientific documents and information for dissemination.
N. Varvarov, in Soviet newspaper, Ekonomicheskaya Gazeta, denounced the U.S. space program as using outer space for military purposes and cluttering the cosmos with an unnecessarily large number of satellites. Especially critical of the Discoverer series, the article said: "…the United States, pursuing an intensive arms race, is setting up an elaborate system of cosmic military intelligence communications and navigation. Actually, this is banditry on an international scale."
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