Sep 2 1962
From The Space Library
MARINER II, 1.2 million mi. from earth on its voyage to vicinity of Venus, successfully swung a yard-wide antenna around and focused it on earth, sending radio beam back to scientists at Jet Propulsion Laboratory. The antenna maneuver was performed on command of on-board timer and was first of two in-flight maneuvers crucial to correcting the probe's path to within 10,000 mi. of Venus; after scientists evaluated results of antenna orientation, NASA Goldstone Tracking Station would send radio command to fire rocket aboard the 447-lb. craft.
In editorial noting addition to FCC of 19 specialists to plan enforcement of communications satellite bill's provisions for public interest protection, New York Times said: "the policy-making decisions confronting the FCC will become increasingly complex. How well and how wisely it discharges its duties will be of crucial importance in shaping the future of this mechanism [communications satellite] for bettering life through man's conquest of space. . . . The march of science is sure to create many more situations in which the partnership of private and public efforts will entail a need for dependable instruments of Government regulation. This makes doubly urgent the successful exercise of the commission's first test." More than 1,600 U.S. military aircraft participated in simulated attack and defense maneuvers during NORAD’s Operation Sky Shield III, with all civilian aircraft grounded during the 5½-hr. exercise.
Tenth anniversary of Livermore Branch of Lawrence Radiation Laboratory, University of California. Established to "help cope with problems involved in maintaining American superiority in nuclear deterrence," the laboratory devoted about half of its effort to weapons research and the remainder to peaceful uses of atomic energy.
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