Oct 4 1959

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NASA LITTLE JOE launch vehicle carrying a boilerplate Mercury capsule with a dummy escape system successfully launched from Wallops Station, Va.

LUNIK III, Russia's translunar earth satellite began photographing trip around the moon, while Premier Khrushchev was visiting Peiping.