May 30 1962
From The Space Library
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M. Scott Carpenter Day in Denver as an estimated 300,000 persons witnessed the Memorial Day parade honoring the Mercury Astronaut from Colorado.
An Australian rocket with five cameras was launched from Woomera as TIROS IV passed overhead. The rocket's camera took photographs of clouds from 80-mile altitude while TIROS IV made simultaneous photography of cloud cover from 400-mile altitude.
The Science Minister of France, Gaston Palewski, outlined plans for orbiting a satellite at a Cabinet meeting. The date had been set "almost to the hour" for the launching of the first French space satellite, although the actual date was kept secret, according to Information Minister Alain Peyrefitte.
Pioneer naval aviator, Vice Admiral Patrick N. L. Bellinger, died. In 1915, Bellinger became the second American flier to be launched by catapult, established flying boat distance record, established altitude record of 10,000 feet, and participated in aerial spotting for artillery fire. In 1916, he made naval tests of live bombing and practical tests of air-to-ground radio communication. In 1917, he made machine-gun firing tests from seaplane and first night seaplane flights using floodlights. In May 1919, he commanded the NC-1 in transatlantic flight to the Azores, damage to aircraft ended the flight there. During World War II, he was commander of the Atlantic Fleet Air Force.
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