Jan 24 1962
From The Space Library
Space News for this day. (2MB PDF)
NASA announced Aerojet-General Corp. had been selected as the contractor for design and development of the M-1 liquid-hydrogen engine. To develop 1,200,000 pounds of thrust, the M-1 would be used in the Nova vehicle as propulsion for the 2nd (4 M-1 engines) and 3rd (1 M-1 engine) stages. Target date for the operational use of the engine was 1965, total cost of the contract expected to be $90,000,000.
Mr. John Stack, Director of Aeronautical Research, NASA, speaking before the Institute of the Aerospace Sciences in New York, advocated a variable-wing, variable-fuselage configuration for the nation's supersonic transport aircraft. Not only were these practicable for the state of the art but the only way he saw to gain the necessary subsonic vs. sonic flight characteristics and load flexibility to make the aircraft economically usable.
Composite I, the Navy's 5-in-1 satellite package, was launched from AMR but failed to achieve orbit when the 2nd stage of the Thor-Able-Star booster rocket misfired.
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