November 1959

From The Space Library

Prototype Goodrich full-pressure Mercury astronaut suits (modified Navy Mark IV) were delivered to NASA. Navy Air Crew Equipment Laboratory (NACEL) of Philadelphia fitted suits and indoctrinated the astronauts on their use.

Cooperative space efforts were discussed with Soviet scientists attending the American Rocket Society meeting in Washington, D.C.

“Coast to Coast in 90 minutes” article in Popular Mechanics

Academic Press of New York City ships the first volume of Frederick I. Ordway's Advances in Space Science series. Ordway assembles an advisory board which includes Wernher von Braun, Eugen Sänger, Leslie R. Shepherd and others.