Mar 28 1962
From The Space Library
U.S. submitted to the U.N. a. supplemental list of U.S. space launchings, covering the period of Feb. 15 to March 15, 1902, updating the coverage of the first U.S. list submitted on March 5, 1902. This second official list did not include Astronaut John Glenn's 3-orbit flight, since the U.S. contended that the U.N. roster was supposed to contain only those space objects still in orbit, not those that had already re-entered. U.S.S.R. listed all its space flights in its report to the U.N. on March 26. Although MA-6 flight was not registered, the U.S. submitted information on the Glenn flight to the U.N. on April 3.
U.S. and Soviet space officials ended two days of technical discussions in New York on possible cooperation in outer space. No public announcements were made.
Senate Aeronautical and Space Sciences Committee unanimously approved a bill for ownership and operation of the Nation's commercial communications satellites.
In speech at Worcester, Mass., Gen. Curtis E. LeMay stated that the U.S.S.R. is "moving at full speed for a decisive capability in space" and that the U.S. could not afford a "fatal technological surprise in the 1970's." Gen. LeMay pointed out that many people looked at military space operations as "merely an extension of nuclear weapons. . . . This may not be the case at all. Our national security in the future may depend on armaments vastly different from any we know today, and believe me they won't be ultimate weapons either." David Sarnoff, Chairman of the Board of Radio Corp. of America, speaking to the Institute of Radio Engineers in New York, called for the free world to organize an international community of science, staffed by its best scientific brains, to expand knowledge of basic science and to attack pressing world problems such as global communications and weather and adequacy of world's food, water, and power supplies.
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