Nov 6 1962
From The Space Library
November 6-8: Fourth Annual Liquid Propulsion Symposium held in San Francisco, with more than 500 representatives of Government and industry. Conference was sponsored by NASA, ARPA, and JA NAF, with series of restricted sessions not open to public.
November 6: U.S.S.R. reported its interplanetary probe MARS I would pass within 162,000 mi. of Mars on its present course. Press agency Tass added a "precise system of star orientation and special engines" would be used to correct the trajectory so that MARS I would pass within 600 to 6,800 mi. of the planet.
U.S. transferred to Dominican Republic its rocket tracking station at Sabana, D.R. Formerly used to track missiles launched from Cape Canaveral toward Ascension Island, the facility would be used as a training center.
First ground-controlled flashes from ANNA geodetic satellite were delayed because delivery of command equipment to Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory had been delayed.
Thomas Dixon, Deputy Associate Administrator of NASA, told Liquid Propulsion Symposium in San Francisco that NASA was studying large liquid-propellant rocket engines, beyond the 1.5 million-lb,-thrust F-1 engine, that would be necessary for manned planetary flight. Pointing out the unacceptability of simply sealing up the F-1 engine to produce the required 20 to 30 million-lb. thrust, since it would then measure about 60 ft. high and 45 ft. nozzle diameter, Dixon cited need for "new and imaginative approaches for propulsion in the future . . . . NASA will emphasize advanced research that could culminate in the development of these giant engines for the future." He added that current NASA research projects in advanced propulsion were making progress. "These studies will assess current work on advanced propulsion concepts and point out areas where new concepts need to be investigated." NASA and the Japanese Ministry of Posts and Telecommunications signed a Memorandum of Understanding for cooperative testing of NASA-launched communications satellites. Japanese Ministry would make available a ground station for communication via artificial satellites; NASA would arrange for use of experimental communications satellites locally by Japan as well as jointly by U.S.-Japan.
President Kennedy announced International Association of Machinists (IAM) and Boeing Co. had agreed to extend negotiations for two months so that National Labor Relations Board could poll employees on question of union Shop.
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