Oct 14 1961
From The Space Library
Capsule of Discoverer XXXII recovered by C-130 piloted by Capt. Warren Schensted, U.S. Air Force, the sixth aerial recovery of an ejected satellite capsule and Schensted's second catch. Capsule contained test objects including seed corn.
NASA Argo D-4 launched from Wallops Station carried United States-Canadian topside sounding satellite payload to 560-mile altitude.
U.S.S.R.'s Tass announced that the "Air Force Herald" would be retitled "Aviation and Cosmonautics" (Aviatsiga I Kosmonavtika), beginning in January 1962.
U.S.S.R. claimed a new world speed record for vertiplanes on a closed 62-mile circuit at 209 miles per hour. Tass said this exceeded the previous record of 191 miles per hour held by a New Zealander, G. Ellith, flying a British Rotordyne. The following day, Tass claimed a horizontal speed of 228 miles per hour for the Kamov vertiplane.
October 14-15: Sky Shield II provided aerospace control exercise for NORAD and SAC, including grounding of all commercial aircraft for 12 hours.
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