Mar 23 1962
From The Space Library
President Kennedy, speaking at the University of California in Berkeley on the occasion of the University's Charter Day and the awarding to the President of an honorary degree of Doctor of Laws, said: ". . . history may well remember this week for . . . the decision by the United States and the Soviet Union to seek concrete agreements on the joint exploration of Space . . . the scientific gains the joint effort would offer might be small compared to the gains for world peace. For a cooperative Soviet-American effort in space science and exploration would emphasize the interests that unite us instead of the conflicts that divide us. It offers its an area in which the stale, sterile dogmas of the cold war can be left literally a quarter of a million miles behind. And it would remind its on both sides that knowledge, not hate, is the passkey to the future—that knowledge transcends national antagonisms—that it speaks a universal language—that it is the possession, not of a single class, a single nation or a single ideology, but of all mankind."
USAF combat missile crew launched an Atlas D ICBM from Vandenberg AFB, Calif., during President Kennedy's visit to the missile base, the first time an American President had witnessed a live launching of an ICBM.
NASA launched a Nike-Cajun rocket from Wallops Station, Va., which released an 80-mile-long sodium-vapor cloud to measure air density and wind direction in the upper atmosphere.
Early tests of pressure and dynamic stability models of the Apollo spacecraft were completed in wind tunnels at JPL and Langley Research Center
D. Brainerd Holmes, NASA's Director of Manned Space Flight, speaking before the Explorers Club in New York, listed one of the NASA organizational accomplishments of recent months as "the establishment of a liaison office with the Department of Defense, particularly with the Air Force Systems Command." Bell Telephone Laboratories announced the formation of a new corporation, Bellcom, Inc., to supply system engineering support to NASA’s space program. The new corporation would be owned jointly by AT&T and Western Electric Corp.
First U.S. patent granted to a citizen of U.S.S.R. in 10 years was granted to Nikolai V. Soodnizin of Moscow on a powered device for coupling and uncoupling lengths of pipe in an oil well. U.S.S.R. recently began encouraging its citizens to apply for foreign patents.
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