Jun 18 1959

From The Space Library

Six U.S. Navy enlisted men began an 8-day experiment in a simulated space cabin at the Air Crew Equipment Laboratory of the Naval Air Material Center at the Philadelphia Naval Base.

NASA authorized $150,000 for Army Ordnance Missile Command studies of a lunar exploration program based on Saturn-boosted systems. To be included were circumlunar vehicles, unmanned and manned; close Lunar Orbiters; hard lunar impacts; and soft lunar landings with stationary or roving payloads.

Senate Staff Report, Manned Space Flight Program, p. 170.

H. Rept. 562, Committee on Science and Astronautics, “Status of Missile and Space Programs” published.