May 19 1962
From The Space Library
MA-7 launch attempt postponed to May 24 because of irregularities detected in temperature control device on a heater in the Atlas flight control system.
Robert R. Gilruth, Director of NASA’s Manned Spacecraft Center at Houston, Texas, received an honorary Doctor of Science degree from Indiana Institute of Technology, Fort Wayne, Ind. In address, Dr. Gilruth pointed out that the "American people and he free world would not stand for it, if in 10 years the Russians were flying through space and we were sitting on the ground." At press conference he disagreed with Dr. James A. Van Allen's recent comment about manned space flight: "I respect Dr. Van Allen's talents but I do not agree with him that manned orbital flights have no value."
An estimated 7,000 persons visited the opening of the Space Museum at the NASA Marshall Space Flight Center.
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