Feb 9 1962
From The Space Library
Weather Bureau reported that TIROS IV had taken "striking pictures, of excellent quality, of cloud cover, and of snow and ice distribution" during its first 24 hours in orbit.
NASA-wide conference reviewing NASA’s Future Applications Program was held in headquarters to review best means of increasing application of technological advances derived from the space program to commercial and industrial purposes.
NASA announced that General Electric had been selected for a major supporting role in the manned lunar Apollo project, to provide integration analysis of the total space vehicle (including booster-spacecraft interface), assuring reliability of the entire space vehicle, and developing and operating a checkout System.
First successful captive firing of RL-10 Centaur engines on a single- tank propulsion test vehicle, at Edwards Rocket Site, Calif.
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