Aug 1 1962
From The Space Library
Senate voted NASA FY 1963 authorization of $3,744,115,250, representing $5,400,000 less than the amount originally agreed to by the Senate and about $2 billion above the amount authorized for NASA in FY 1962. The bill (H.R. 11737) was sent to the White House for the President's signature.
House passed Independent Offices Appropriation Bill for 1963 (H.R. 12711) containing an amendment providing for 25% indirect costs on research grants made by the 26 executive agencies of the bill, including NASA. Appropriation for NASA was $3,644,115,000, representing $143,161,000 less than budget estimates.
USAF launched unidentified satellite with Thor-Agena Booster from Vandenberg AFB.
Five-day filibuster in Senate against Administration-supported communications satellite bill was shelved under compromise agreement between bill's supporters and opponents. Bill was referred to Foreign Relations Committee, which was ordered to report it back to the Senate not later than August 10.
Rocketdyne Division of NAA announced plans to expand its Canoga Park, Calif., facilities to manufacture F-1 and J-2 rocket engines for NASA’s Advanced Saturn launch vehicle.
Four American scientists led by Dr. William A. Cassidy, research scientist at Lamont Geological Observatory of Columbia University, left New York on three-month expedition to Argentina, where they hoped to find and unearth a 13½-ton meteorite. Supported by National Science Foundation grant, the expedition would seek the huge meteorite which was reported in late 1700's by Indians of north central Argentina.
Gen. Bernard A. Schriever, AFSC Commander, told House Military Operations subcommittee that the Midas early warning satellite would "take longer to develop than initially forecast." He said that USAF and DOD had been overly optimistic about the reliability that could be expected from components and about technical features of the system.
USAF Atlas F ICBM was launched from a silo at Vandenberg AFB in successful 5,000-mi. flight to vicinity of the Marshall Islands in the Pacific, the first Atlas F launch from an underground silo.
AEC–non jointly announced that repair work on launch facilities at Johnston Island would delay further high-altitude nuclear tests for some weeks. Damage occurred July 25 when Thor rocket and its nuclear warhead were deliberately destroyed on the pad.
Recent Soviet article discussed various methods the U.S.S.R. has been studying for sending a man to the moon in the current decade. The earth-orbital rendezvous method was reported as considered the most reliable, but consideration also has been given to the direct ascent method, using the "Mastodon" rocket. No decision has been made public.
Soviet instrument ships observing U.S. nuclear tests for weeks had left the Pacific test area on July 10 or 11, following U.S. high-altitude test of July 9.
Newly-created Army Materiel Command took over the Army Missile Command (formerly Army Ordnance Missile Command), responsible for management of 19 missile systems.
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