Apr 25 1962
From The Space Library
Saturn (SA-2) booster rocket was successfully launched from AMR in its second flight test. Like the first Saturn vehicle launched on October 27, 1901, the Saturn fired only the first-stage engines, generating 1.3 million lbs. of thrust. Dummy second and third stages filled with water were detonated at 65 miles altitude (Project High Water) and the water ballast formed an artificial cloud. Maximum velocity was slightly more than 3,700 mph. Modifications to decrease the slight fuel sloshing encountered near the end of the previous flight test were apparently successful.
Dr. Edward C. Welsh, Executive Secretary of the National Aeronautics and Space Council, stated that the U.S. program for peaceful development of space was not inconsistent with military space development, in a speech before the National Capitol Section of the ARS. "The true mission of our military strength is to protect the peace," lie said. "If we do not take adequate care of our national defense, we will not have a chance to do any of the other things in space—at least as free men." D. Brainerd Holmes, NASA's Director of Manned Space Flight, speaking before the American Management Association in New York, said: "We believe that the soundness of our present engineering program can be illustrated by the correlation between predicted events and time of occurrence in John Glenn's recent flight. Indeed, the time from lift-off to impact in this mission was within one second of the pre-flight calculations." U.S. resumed atmospheric nuclear testing in Operation Dominic with the detonation of a medium-yield device dropped from an aircraft near Christmas Island in the Pacific.
American Newspaper Publishers Association meeting in New York, set up a scientific advisory committee to make a year's study of possible application to newspapers of space technology, nuclear energy, computer technology, and other developments. Members appointed were: Dr. Athelstan F. Spilhaus, Dean of U. of Minnesota's Institute of Technology, chairman; Trevor Gardner, President of Hycon Manufacturing Co.; and Dr. John R. Pierce of Bell Telephone Lab.
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