Jan 10 1961
From The Space Library
President-elect Kennedy received report of special nine-man committee on the national space program. Chairman of the committee was Dr. Jerome B. Wiesner of MIT.
A Polaris missile of the advanced A-2 design was fired from Cape Canaveral 1,600 miles down the Atlantic Missile Range. It was the third success in as many firings for the new Polaris designed to operate at a range over 1,700 miles.
US Patent #2,967,393 is issued to Wernher von Braun for a "rocket propelled missile". The design looks exactly like the V-2 missile first launched 19 years earlier. Von Braun's patent
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