Sep 1 1961
From The Space Library
White House announced that the U.S.S.R. had resumed testing of nuclear weapons early this morning, the first known nuclear test by U.S.S.R., United States, or Britain since the fall of 1958.
Per NASA management instructions, all space vehicles and spacecraft under cognizance of NASA were to be equipped with fail-safe devices for terminating electromagnetic transmissions at the completion of their planned useful life.
Three parachuting skin divers recovered capsule of Discoverer XXIX, the seventh recovery of an object from orbit in the USAF Discoverer program. Capsule had made 33 orbits and contained human, animal, and soil life samples.
NASA Administrator Webb, appearing before the Senate Committee on Aeronautical and Space Sciences, requested $60 million additional for fiscal year 1962 for the acquisition of 80,000 acres adjoining Cape Canaveral for launching facilities for the expanded space program.
NASA issued its "Program Evaluation and Review Technique Handbook," its adaptation of the Navy PERT program management system.
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