Nov 5 1966
From The Space Library
NASA conducted first rocket-launched test of parachute landing system for Voyager spacecraft at WSMR. Honest John-Nike rocket boosted 200-lb. experimental package to 104,000-ft. altitude, but ground command transmission did not correctly trigger deployment. Successful balloon-launched test in the LaRC-managed parachute experiment series had been completed Aug. 30. Voyager project was managed by JPL. (NASA Proj. Off.)
Astronauts James A. Lovell, Jr., and Edwin E. Aldrin, Jr., passed their medical examinations for the Gemini XII mission, scheduled for launch from ETR Nov. 9. (Wash. Post, 11/6/66, A17)
November 5-6: FAA, Office of Emergency Planning, and New York City officials successfully staged "Metro Air Support '66," an exercise in which more than 200 Vtol aircraft and helicopters took off and landed at piers, parks, and streets with emergency supplies, technicians, and Government officials to demonstrate how aircraft could be used if other transportation were paralyzed during emergency or disaster. (FAA Releases 66-90, 66-96; Nevard, NYT, 11/6/66, 1)
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