Aug 10 1962
From The Space Library
Senate Foreign Relations Committee returned the communications satellite bill (H.R. 11040) to the Senate floor, after defeating amendments sought by opponents of the bill. Senate filibuster against the communications satellite bill was resumed.
NASA Administrator James E. Webb, speaking before a subcommittee of the Senate Committee on Appropriations, said that 32 candidates for astronaut positions had been selected from the 200 applicants, and that by September 1 NASA would select 10 of these men to enter astronaut training.
USAF Atlas F ICBM was destroyed by the range safety officer a few seconds after launch from Vandenberg AFB.
Advanced model of Navy's Polaris A-2 missile was successfully test-fired from a land pad at Cape Canaveral, in 1,700-mi. flight downrange.
Reported that NASA had selected Aerojet-General's Algol solid-propellant motor to power Little Joe II booster, which would be used to flight-test the command and service modules of Apollo spacecraft NASA announced appointment of Dr. Robert L. Barre as Scientist for Social, Economic, and Political Studies in the Office of Plans and Program Evaluation. Formerly a private consultant for both Government and industry, Dr. Barre would be responsible for developing NASA's program of understanding, interpreting, and evaluating the social, economic, and political implications of NASA's long-range plans and accomplishments.
DOD announced first flight of Army's new VTOL, turbojet airplane, the Lockheed VZ-10 "Hummingbird," at Lockheed-Georgia's plant, Marietta, Ga. After further tests to prove Hummingbird's aerodynamic and handling features in conventional flight, Lockheed would begin vertical takeoff and landing (VTOL) tests with the twin-jet research aircraft.
British Blue Water missile development was canceled, after British Government had spent $84 million on the 75-mile-range, surface-to-surface missile. Defense Ministry said that Blue Water program was canceled because of the increasing number and yield of other tactical weapons available to NATO.
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