Sep 27 1962
From The Space Library
NASA announced that Venus-hound MARINER II had been in flight one month, during which time it had traveled more than five million mi. from earth and had transmitted scientific data on interplanetary space from a greater distance than any space probe except PIONEER V (launched March 11, 1960).
U.S.S.R. placed scientific satellite COSMOS into orbit (apogee, 219 mi.; perigee, 187 mi.; period, 90.9 min.), in series to study ionosphere, radiation belts, and effect of meteorites on spaceships.
NASA postponed launch of first Canadian satellite, Alouette, at Pt. Arguello.
Astronaut Walter M. Schirra, Jr., would photograph cloud formations during his forthcoming orbital flight MA-8, it was announced. Cdr. Schirra's special 2½-lb. hand camera would be used to test techniques for the advanced Nimbus weather satellite.
Because of unnamed technical difficulties, flight test of X-15 rocket research aircraft was postponed minutes before X-15 was to be dropped from its mother ship.
Results of a USIA poll in Britain showed that 82% of people questioned had identified TELSTAR communications satellite by name, compared to 78% able to identify SPUTNIK I in 1957. Testifying before a subcommittee of the House Committee on Science and Astronautics, Robert Mayer Evans, special assistant to USIA Director Edward R. Murrow, reported the survey's results and said they showed "an extraordinary level of awareness" of the communication satellite in its first weeks of existence.
AEC announced Soviet atmospheric nuclear explosion of nearly 30 megaton yield.
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