Nov 11 1964
From The Space Library
The second set in a series of three dual ship-to-shore sounding rocket launchings was conducted at 5:24 p.m. EST from the USNS Croatan and at 5:27 p.m. from Wallops Island, Va., about 200 mi. apart. Sodium vapor was ejected by the Nike-Apaches from about 25 mi. up to an altitude of approximately 125 mi. The reddish-pink clouds were visible for several hundred miles along the East Coast. (Wallops Release 64-84; NASA Rpt. SRL)
Paul Haney, NASA Manned Spacecraft Center Public Affairs Officer, told the Radio and Television News Directors Association that television viewers would be able to watch the first astronauts land on the moon from the comfort of their living rooms. Television cameras carried by the astronauts would beam a signal back to earth which could be relayed to the major TV networks. The astronaut on the lunar surface would also take pictures as he walked along. All of these would be relayed back to earth, Haney said. (AP, Balt. Sun, 10/12/64; Maloney, Houston Post, 11/12/64)
Institute for Satellite and Space Research scientists in Bochum, W. Germany, reported monitors had picked up both radio signals and voice broadcasts on the same frequency used by the Soviet Union for manned spacecraft. No manned space launch had been announced by U.S.S.R. (Sci. Ser., Wash. Daily News, 11/13/64)
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