Nov 9 1961
From The Space Library
X-15 flown to announced record 4,070 miles per hour (later revised to 4,093) by Maj. Robert White, U.S. Air Force, in top-speed test flight, making safe landing with outer right windshield cracked.
November 9: Former President Dwight D. Eisenhower in speech at Case Institute of Technology in Cleveland, said: "I for one do not fully understand why, in the midst of a plethora of necessary and costly activities, our Nation should be required, urgently, to develop a capacity to put men on the Moon and challenge our principal opponent in doing so. " Senate Small Business Committee concluded critical hearings on the FCC's handling of the communications satellite project.
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