Mar 26 1958

From The Space Library

Third U.S.-IGY Satellite, EXPLORER II a joint ABMA-JPL project, successfully launched by Army Juno II, yielded valuable data on radiation belt, micrometeorite impacts, and temperature before returning to earth on June 27.

President Eisenhower in a brief statement released the President's Science Advisory Committee's report, "Introduction to Outer Space: an Explanatory Statement." This report set forth the basic factors making the advancement of space technology a national necessity and explained to the nontechnical reader the principles and potentialities of space travel The many uses of space technology for scientific and military purposes were summarized, and a timetable for carrying out these objectives was included.

Military telephone and telegraph system using the troposphere to bounce radio signals over long distances, called "White Alice," was activated.