Nov 17 1963
From The Space Library
NASA launched an Aerobee 150A sounding rocket from NASA Wallops Station, Va., sending a 200-lb. payload 115 mi. into the upper atmosphere to measure ultraviolet radiation. Experiment was part of a continuing program to develop techniques for measuring ultraviolet dayglow and from the measurements determining the physical processes taking place in the upper atmosphere. Such techniques would also be useful as instrumentation on satellites studying the atmospheres of other planets. (Wallops Release 63-103)
First international art program via communications satellite was presented over NBC-TV. Entitled "Museums Without Walls," the half-hour program interchanged views of paintings from the Louvre in Paris and the National Gallery in Washington via Relay communications satellite. The program went off without any significant technical difficulties and reception was excellent. (Gould, NYT, 11/18/63, 59)
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