Dec 6 1962
From The Space Library
Nike-Cajun sounding rocket launched from NASA Wallops Station to measure high-altitude winds and temperatures, the payload consisting of 12 special explosive charges which were ejected and detonated at intervals from 24- to 57-mi. altitude.
Roger Seydoux, French ambassador to U.N., announced that France planned to launch its first satellite by 1965, and that France would continue its space activities "at the rhythm required by the present day world." Titan II missile, fired from Cape Canaveral, failed to travel planned 8,000 mi. because of malfunction in second stage.
Dr. Hugh L. Dryden, NASA Deputy Administrator, was among the five Federal employees presented with the distinguished Rockefeller Public Service Award for 1962 by President Kennedy.
Dr. Ernst Stuhlinger, Director of Research Project Div. of NASA Marshall Space Flight Center, was awarded 1962 Hermann Oberth Award of the Alabama section, American Rocket Society.
No funds for Skybolt missile development were included in Secretary of Defense McNamara's proposed FY 1964 budget, it was reported. DOD officially acknowledged it was giving the Skybolt project a "hard look." Each of Skybolt's five flight-tests had been unsuccessful.
USN. advanced Polaris A-3 missile, launched from Cape Canaveral, began twisting after second-stage ignition and had to be destroyed by range safety officer. Large section of the missile, still under power, escaped detonation and suddenly shifted off course, landing in ocean 300-350 mi. northeast of Cape Canaveral and about 150 mi. east of Savannah, Ga. Range safety procedures were under careful review as result of the errant missile's flight.
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