Mar 10 1962
From The Space Library
In address at fund-raising dinner at Miami Beach, President Kennedy pointed out that NASA would spend five times as much in Florida during next fiscal year as last, and that "research, development and production expenditures will also increase at the Cape, in this state's private industry, and in your great universities." The Astronautics Committee of the 51-nation Féderation Aeronautique Internationale, meeting in Paris, certified Soviet Cosmonaut Gherman S. Titov as holder of two new world records for space flight: duration of flight, 25 hrs. 11 min.; and length of flight, 436,911 mi. In certifying Titov's records, the committee relaxed its rule that the pilot must land with his vehicle (Titov parachuted to earth). The heaviest payload in orbital flight still belongs to the other Soviet cosmonaut, Yuri Gagarin (10,419 lbs.).
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