Oct 25 1961
From The Space Library
NASA selected Pearl River site in southwestern Mississippi, 35 miles from the Michoud plant in New Orleans, for static test facility for Saturn and Nova-class vehicles, completed facility to operate under direction of Marshall Space Flight Center.
Ranger 2 shot postponed indefinitely as the 8-day "window" (i.e., when the Moon, Sun, and Earth were in favorable positions) had ended before technical difficulties could be corrected. Reported from Cape Canaveral that launch of Titan the previous evening had been detected by Midas IV.
USAF announced that Project West Ford's 350 million dipoles launched with Midas IV had not yet been found by radar contact.
Full Tass text of Marshal R. V. Malinovsky's speech on October 23 as it appeared in Soviet dailies, showed no statement to the effect that the Soviets had perfected an antimissile missile, as had been reported by Moscow correspondents of the American press.
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