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

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negotiations would consider cooperative efforts in experimental
system of active-repeater satellites. Agreement provided that
“the results of these cooperative experiments would be made
freely available to all interested states,” U.S. Ambassador to the
U.N. Adlai Stevenson said. Agreement was product of Geneva
negotiations between U.S. team headed by Dr. Hugh L. Dryden,
NASA Deputy Administrator, and Soviet team headed by Prof.
Anatoli A. Blagonravov, conducted in spring of 1962.
December 6: Nike-Cajun launched from NASA Wallops Station carried
electron-density and temperature instrumentation to 80-mi. alti-
tude, as part of current series of upper-atmosphere studies.
Sodium-vapor experiment launched with Nike-Apache vehicle from
NASA Wallops Station was not successful because the payload
did not perform properly. Flight was part of current upper-
atmosphere studies being conducted by NASA Goddard Space
Flight Center.
Committee for International Year of the Quiet Sun (IQSY), meeting
in London, approved worldwide research program to be conducted
during 1964-65 eriod of minimum solar activity. Proposed
program includex multi-nation participation in such research
areas as meteorology, geomagnetism, aurora, airglow, ionosphere,
solar activity, cosmic rays, and aeronomy. Project was out-
growth of International Geo hysical Year (IGY), 1957-58, con-
sidered highly successful bot E in scientific results and in inter-
national coopera tion.
John Dykstra, president of Ford Motor Co., told American Ord-
nance Association meeting that a great potential defense capa-
bility lay untapped in industry-particularly in heavy, mass-
producing manufacturing. Asserting that the problem of de-
veloping and maintaining broad defense and s ace capability
throughout industry had not been adequately rea P ized or defined,
Dykstra suggested reorganizing U.S. productive resources and
putting “much more of our heavy manufacturing industry in a
state of preparedness to switch readily from peacetime to wartime
production. Such preparedness would mean, at a minimum,
that heavy industry would be kept current in matters of
defense technolo y in areas of natural interest to it. Such
preparedness cou f d also involve a broader distribution of space
and defense research and development effort, as well as of pro-
duction, on a systematic basis. . . .
“Whatever form an Industrial National Guard might take, I
believe the concept is essential. In view of the enormous de-
mands now being made on all our resources of brainpower, we
cannot afford to make less than the best possible economic and
eacient use of them. . . .
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Titan I ICBM was successfully fired 4,000 mi. down the PMR in test
of recently modified ground support equipment. This was sixth
Titan I launch from Vandenberg AFB.
Rear Adm. Luis de Florez died at age 73; he had been instrumental
in 1945 “Project Paperclip” to ensure German scientists and
engineers would come to U.S.
Nine Soviet cosmonauts were lost in space between February 1959
and October 1961, it was reported by Oton Ambroz of North
American Newspaper Alliance (NANA). Article, relying heavily