Sep 27 1960
From The Space Library
Parachute designed to slow reentry speed of space capsules successfully tested at a speed of 2,000 mph after rocket boost to 30-mile altitude, over Eglin AFB, Fla.
Massive Soviet news buildup for this as "a day in the history of the world," while Premier Khrushchev was at the U.N. General Assembly meeting in New York. Rumored space spectacular did not apparently take place.
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