Jan 12 1964

From The Space Library

NASA Nike-Apache sounding rocket with sodium-vapor payload was launched to 106-mi. altitude from Thumba Range, Trivandrum, India, in joint effort of NASA Goddard Space Flight Center and Physi­cal Research Laboratory, Ahmedabad, India. Rocket performed as predicted, sodium ejected as predicted, and temperature and turbulence measurements Were made with ground-based cameras and instrumen­tation. (NASA Rpt. SRL)

Three USAF test pilots entered Apollo command module at Martin Co., Baltimore, for simulated 7-day lunar landing mission. (AP, NYT, 1/13/64, 9)

USN evacuated staff and dependents (25 persons) at NASA tracking station in Zanzibar, where military coup overthrew the government of the one­-month-old nation. (GSFC Historian)

Cosmonaut Valentina Nikolayeva-Tereshkova, wife of Cosmonaut Andrian G. Nikolayev, was an expectant mother, Moscow sources reported. (UPI, NYT, 1/13/64, 5)

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