Astronautical and Aeronautical Events of 1962 - NASA's History Office

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trades who had refused to cross electricians’ picket lines, had
returned to work. Hearing on the strike by President’s Missile
Sites Labor Commission was scheduled for August 27.
August 23: International Edition of New York Times contained articles
(about 5,000 words) transmitted from New York to Paris via
‘I ELSTAR satellite.
First attempted live radio broadcast between U.S. and Europe via
TELSTAR satellite was unsuccessful because of failing radio con-
nections between Boston broadcasting station and Andover,
Maine, relay station. Boston station received, but could not
understand, Swedish message; Sweden station did not receive
message from Boston. TELSTAR performed perfectly, however.
Two new sources of radiation in the Milky Way had been discovered
by USAF Aerobee probe on June 18, physicist Riccardo Giacconi
announced at Third International Symposium on X-Ray Optics
and X-Ray Microanalysis, Stanford University. Giacconi said
that knowledge of x-ray emissions was valuable because this kind
of radiation was “intimately connected with the creation and
behavior of cosmic rays and the properties of a galaxy. . . .”
Discovery and investigation of such x-rays would “further under-
standing of the origin and dynamics of the universe . . . and
may have a bearing on the study of communication of matter
between galaxies.” A second probe was planned for launch on
October 2, to investigate the discoveries.
Soviet Cosmonaut Pave1 R. Popovich, in an interview on Moscow
television, was asked if he had seen God in space during his recent
orbit’al flight in VOSTOK IV, and he replied: “Yes, I can confirm
this. I have seen God.
I asked his surname and he replies,
‘Nikolayev, Andrian Grigorevich.’ ”
August 24: Speaking on the floor of the Senate, Senator Thomas
Dodd supported statements by Senator Cannon on August 20,
and added: “The primary goals of our foreign policy, as I see it,
are fist, the protection of our Nation; second, the maintenance
and extension of freedom ; and third, the preservatlon of peace. . . .
Our ability to protect our freedoms and preserve the peace
depends . . . on our military power in-being-on land, on sea,
in the air and, tomorrow, in space. . . .
“I earnestly hope that it will prove possible to maintain our
scientific space program and our moon program intact while
instituting an immediate program to bolster our flagging military
effort in space. . . .
“The reorganization of our space effort will require a number
of changes. First, and preceding everything else, there must be
a change in policy, which clearly and publicly assigns a greater
emphasis to the military potentialities of space. . . .
“Second, there must be a specific directive to the Defense
Department to proceed as a matter of the utmost urgency with
the development of military space systems, in particular of
manned space vehicles . . .
“Third, I believe that while proceeding with the development
of specialized military spacecraft, our Military Establishment
should be authorized to embark immediately on a launching
program of its own for manned space vehicles, perhaps employing