Sep 29 1962
From The Space Library
NASA Administrator James E. Webb announced that the project management of the liquid hydrogen-fueled Centaur launch vehicle and the hydrogen-fueled M-1 rocket engine would be transferred from Marshall Space Flight Center to the Lewis Research Center. Studies were being initiated to adapt Centaur as a stage to other boosters. Mr. Webb said: "The transfer will allow the Marshall Center to concentrate its efforts on the Saturn vehicles for the manned lunar landing program. . . . It will permit the Lewis Research Center to use its experience in liquid hydrogen to further the work already done on one of the most promising high-energy rocket fuels and its application to Centaur and the M-1." USAF launched satellite from PMR with Thor-Agena Booster.
At the 13th Congress of the International Astronautical Federation (IAF), meeting in Bulgaria, the 1962 Guggenheim International Astronautics Award was awarded to Prof. James A. Van Allen.
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