Apr 5 1962
From The Space Library
X-15 No. 3 flown to speed of 2,830 mph (mach 4.06) and to altitude of 179,000 ft. in a test of new adaptive control system to be used in Dyna-Soar and Apollo vehicles. NASA’s Neil A. Armstrong was pilot. Whereas the previous control system was automatic only while the X-15 was within the atmosphere and the pilot had to control flight with reaction jets while in Space, the new system would be automatic in both regimes.
Two outstanding challenges to science today were the conquest of space and the achieving of controlled fusion power, Dr. Peter L. Kapitza, one of Russia's leading physicists, wrote in the April issue of the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists. Very-long-range rockets would have little practical use except as a means of cheap, safe disposal of radioactive waste in outer space, he said.
Army launched Nike-Zeus missile in what was described as a successful intercept of a simulated ICBM nose cone.
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