Jan 4 1962
From The Space Library
Announced at the Manned Spacecraft. Center that a large "innertube" or "flotation collar" may be used to keep Mercury capsule afloat after a water landing. Collar would be installed by Navy frogmen. Astronaut Alan B. Shepard took part in proving tests conducted on Chesapeake Bay.
NASA announced contract with the University of Texas to design and build a radio antenna at the Balcones Research Center to be used in making radiation measurements of the moon and planets. It would be 16 feet in diameter and operate effectively at 30,000 to 150,000 megacycles.
Dr. William W. Kellogg of the NAS Space Science Board reported on the study of the planet Venus at the American Geophysical Union. Bolometer studies of the atmosphere of Venus indicated a temperature of -40° C (presumably the cloud tops), while temperatures deduced from measurements by large radiotelescopes indicated temperatures of about 300° C (572° F) (believed to be surface temperature). A planetary probe could probably answer questions raised on the thickness and nature of Venus' aerosphere.
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