Oct 4 1961
From The Space Library
Beginning of the fifth year of the "space age," being the anniversary of the launching of Sputnik I (1957).
Project West Ford given final approval by the White House.
Maj. Robert Rushworth, U.S. Air Force, flew X-15 to 2,820 miles per hour, with bottom tail fin missing in programed malfunctions for test of stability and control.
State Department ruled that Soviet space scientists would not be allowed to visit the American Rocket Society's Space Flight Report to the Nation in New York on October 9-14, a reciprocal action prompted by Soviet restrictions on American scientists in the U.S.S.R.
Soviet scientists in Washington for 12th IAF Congress revealed that Maj. Gherman S. Titov was ill during his 17 orbits in Vostok II on August 6. Disorientation, nausea, and irregular heartbeat resulted from prolonged weightlessness, according to O. G. Gazenko and V. J. Yazdovsky of the Soviet Academy of Sciences.
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