Oct 26 1961
From The Space Library
National Aeronautic Association appointed committee headed by Maj. Gen. Albert Boyd, U.S. Air Force (retired), to program U.S. efforts to break world aircraft records now held by other nations.
Air Force Cambridge Research Laboratory successfully flight-tested largest plastic balloon (318 feet in diameter and 434 feet long).
U.S.S. Blandy demonstrated capability of a destroyer to recover MR-2 Mercury capsule, with Virgil Grissom aboard, from water in series of pickups in lower Chesapeake Bay.
Two-day Interplanetary Exploration Symposium begins at the University of Toronto Institute of Aerophysics.
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