Mar 24 1962
From The Space Library
Two-week meeting of Study Group IV of the International Radio Consultative Committee (CCIR) of the International Telecommunication Union (ITU) concluded in Washington, D.C. Study Group IV reviewed technical phases of space communications, including the selection of frequencies for telecommunications with and between space vehicles. Over 200 representatives from 30 countries participated in these sessions, Dr. John P. Hagen serving as head of the U.S. delegation.
Prof. Auguste Piccard, pioneer Swiss explorer of the stratosphere and ocean depths, died in Geneva at the age of 78. In 1931 Prof. Piccard ascended to 51,777 ft. in the gondola of a balloon of his own design. In numerous balloon ascents in the 1920's and 1930's, he made many studies of radioactivity, atmospheric electricity, cosmic rays, and other scientific phenomena. Turning from the air to the oceans, Prof. Piccard designed his bathyscaphe and in 1953 he and his son reached a depth of two miles. In 1960 the U.S. Navy took an improved version of his craft down to 37,800 ft.
Soviet Marshal Mikhail Tukhachevsky, executed in 1937 on Stalin's orders and exonerated in 1956, was honored in the official military newspaper, Red Star. It was pointed out that in 1932 Tukhachevsky insisted on the development of rocket engines and that he persisted in this effort until purged.
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