Jul 16 1962
From The Space Library
X-15 No. 1 flown to 107,000 feet at speeds up to 3,733 mph by Joseph A. Walker, in series of seven "roller-coaster dips" in test of the alternate stability augmentation system.
British transmitted first transatlantic color television during two orbits of TELSTAR, twice transmitting still photographs to Andover facility of AT&T.
Aviation Week reported that NASA had delayed announcement of its lunar-orbit rendezvous (LOR) decision for a week to allow for its study by the President's Science Advisory Committee.
In Cleveland ARS meeting, Associate NASA Administrator Robert Seamans stated that decision on the lunar-orbit rendezvous (Lou) would allow time to develop a larger Nova booster than previously contemplated.
Douglas Aircraft Co. reached separate agreement with two labor unions on a three-year contract, thus avoiding threatened strike of aerospace workers.
In an interview with fourteen American newspaper editors, the text of which was released, Premier Nikita Khrushchev asserted that showing of documentary film on the Soviet antimissile missile to the Communist-sponsored Peace Conference last week had been overruled by those who felt its showing "might have been misunderstood" as a warlike gesture. "Had the people been shown this film," Khrushchev said, "they would have seen what kind of a machine it is. You can say our rocket can hit a fly in outer space."
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