Sep 27 1992
From The Space Library
Germany announced that it would go ahead with a celebration to mark the 50th anniversary of the first launch of the V-2 rocket despite British protests. The organizers said the event would celebrate the "first step into space" and did not represent a glorification of a Nazi weapon. (W Post, Sept 28/92; The Sun, Sept 26/92)
Douglas Broome, Jr., Deputy Director of the solar system exploration division at NASA, died of liver cancer September 27 in Fairfax, Virginia. (W Post, Sept 30/92; W Times, Sept 30/92)
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