Jan 29 1963
From The Space Library
EXPLORER XIV, silent since Jan. 10, resumed normal transmission.(AP, Wash. Eve. Star, 1/30/63)
Titan I missile successfully launched from Vandenberg AFB by SAC crew in routine training exercise, USAF announced. (AP, Wash. Post, 1/30/63, A1)
NASA Aerobee 150A sounding rocket launched from NASA Wallops Station failed to boost scientific experiment to desired altitude because of launch vehicle malfunction. Experiment was to have studied spectral emission lines in upper atmosphere to help in determining “distribution of certain molecular and atomic species in the upper atmosphere.” (Wallops Release 63-8)
NASA Director of Communications Systems, Leonard Jaffee, announced NASA would attempt to launch Syncom communications satellite into synchronous orbit with Delta vehicle no earlier than Feb. 13. Previously announced for no earlier than Feb. 6, Syncom launch was postponed “to insure that the [command and control] equipment is completely checked out” aboard USNS Kingsport, stationed in Lagos Harbor, and on the launch vehicle at Cape Canaveral.(Tech. Background Briefing, 1/29/63)
At an extraordinary session of the General Aviation Committee of the Federation Aeronautique Internationale (FAI), held in Amsterdam, representatives of 14 countries agreed that there was need for a permanent organization, to be called the International Bureau of General Aviation (IFMA), which would present the views of general aviation before the International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO) . Representing the National Aero Clubs of 55 countries, FAI’S IBGA would have two major objectives : (1) To gather and disseminate information pertaining to international general aviation; (2) To bring about a reduction of restrictions against an improvement in facilities for the free flow of general aviation flight operations between nations. (NU Release)
