Jul 12 1962
From The Space Library
USAF Titan II flown 5,000 miles down AMR on third test flight.
Leading editorial of New York Times said, "The tendency of man's technological progress to outdistance his institutions for coping with that progress is strikingly indicated by current developments in space. . . ." Pointing to the "brilliant initial successes" of TELSTAR, it stated: "The clear lesson of these technological accomplishments is that space is now a full-fledged area of human activity for a wide variety of purposes, and will increasingly be employed for men's ends in the years immediately ahead. Yet the cosmos today is a lawless dimension and there is no universal agreement even on so elementary a question as where space begins—no boundary line between the region in which existing national and international law holds sway and the region in which it does not. . . ." Editorial called for fulfillment of the responsibility resting on the space law committee of the United Nations' Committee on the Peaceful Uses of Outer Space since "the cosmos bears some resemblance to a jungle." Walter C. Williams, associate director of NASA Manned Spacecraft Center, defended orbital flights by astronauts that apparently are duplicates of previous flights, saying that the only way the U.S. can have a space program in depth is to repeat some of the operations. He stated that new data were gathered from each flight, replying to critics of the second manned 3-orbit spaceflight mission (MA-7).
Statement issued by the European Broadcasting Union declared that France had "contravened" an international agreement by transmitting the first television broadcast from Europe to the United States via TELSTAR. Under an agreement including the French, "no television material of entertainment or informative character" was to be broadcast to the U.S. before the joint "Eurovision" program scheduled for July 23. The appearance of Yves Montand and two other singers on the French transmission on July 10 was considered the case in point. In response, French officials said they had not transmitted a program but merely some experimental sequences.
Reported that at NASA meeting of lunar scientists the view presented by astronomers, a geologist, and geophysicists that scientists can learn to become astronauts as well as an astronaut can make scientific observations. Which scientific discipline should be represented as a member of the 3-man Apollo crew did not receive a unanimous endorsement.
Atlas ICBM launched by USAF squadron from Vandenberg AFB, two Polaris A-2 IRBM’s successfully launched from submerged U.S.S. John Marshall off Cape Canaveral, and a USAF Minuteman exploded 50 seconds after launch from silo at Cape Canaveral.
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