Aug 5 1962
From The Space Library
USAF launched an unidentified satellite from Vandenberg AFB, using an Atlas-Agena launch vehicle.
Soviet Cosmonauts Gherman S. Titov and Yuri A. Gagarin hinted in a press interview that the U.S.S.R. would attempt prolonged manned orbital flight some time during 1962. Colonel Gagarin remarked: "Recently in Japan I said that new flights through space are not far off and expressed confidence that they would certainly take place this year." Major Titov then added: "I also am of the same opinion and want to add that the time already is past when the length of cosmic flights will be only hundreds of thousands of kilometers. I think that flights of future cosmonauts will be more prolonged and the route of their cosmic ships will measure millions of kilometers." August 5: The World's Fair Corp. announced it was developing plans for a unified space exploration exhibit called "Aerospace Island," as part of the U.S. exhibit in the 1964-65 World's Fair.
U.S.S.R. resumed nuclear tests with a high-altitude blast in the 40- megaton range, the first Soviet test since November 4, 1961.
Michael Friedlander, associate professor of physics at Washington University, St. Louis, was preparing to send up a series of huge balloons for cosmic ray experiments, beginning about August 15, from Calvina, South Africa.
Dr. Clarence P. Oliver of the University of Texas zoology department suggested to the House Space Committee that astronauts traveling through space "for any extended period" should refuse to have any more children. Radiation exposure exceeding normal dosage on earth would pose a "genetic risk," he testified.
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