Jun 3 1961
From The Space Library
Dr. Edward R. Sharp, former Director of Lewis Research Laboratory (1942-61), was presented NASA's first Outstanding Leadership Medal by Dr. Hugh L. Dryden.
USAF B-58 which established Atlantic crossing record to Paris of 3 hours 19 minutes crashed after takeoff from Le Bourget Airport, killing its three-man crew. Maj. Elmer E. Murphy, pilot, had recently been awarded the Louis Bleriot Speed Trophy for record speed flight of 1,302 miles per hour in January.
Aerojet-General test-fired large solid-propellant rocket motor which generated a half million pounds' thrust, at Sacramento, Calif.
A leading Istanbul newspaper, Milliyet, reported Turkish newsmen's reactions after seeing movies of both the Shepard and Gagarin space flights: "When the film was over the journalists asked the Soviet consul general: 'In the Shepard film we followed all phases of his space flight, but in yours we followed only Khrushchev. Why don't you show your space flight too?' The Tass correspondent on behalf of the consul general answered: We are mainly interested in people's excitement and reaction. This is what we wanted you to see.' Gagarin may have gone into space, but this is not the impression of the journalists who saw both films: Shepard really went into space, not Gagarin, and in front of the whole world, too."
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