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

INDEX
Langly Research Center (Lam), 16-17, 24-25, 25, 65, 76, 108, 109
awards to, 24-25, 108, 208
conferences, 138, 149, 210
research
aircraft, 249-50
atmospheric winds, 116
facilities, 237
paraglider, 91
re-entry, 17
rocket vibration test, 70
Rogallo wing, 116
space crew, 179
space station, 64, 138, 203
Langmuir probe, 62
Language, foreign, 121
Language, universal, 172
Lam. See Langley Research Center
Lascelles, Reginald, 169
Laser (light amp!ification by stimulated emission of radiation)
development, 9, 214, 216, 228
experiments, 66, 163
use of, 141, 199, 235
Las Vegns, Nevada, 14, 186, 195, 196
Launching site, international, 89, 99
Launch Operations Center (LOC), 31, 127, 181
Launch platforms, floating, 57-8, 112
Laurence G. Hanscom Field, Mass., 35
Lausanne, Switzerland, 179
Law, international, 218
Lawrence B. Sperry Award, 8
Lawrence, Ernest O., 110
Lawrence Radiation Laboratory (U. of Cal.), 70, 234
Leavy, William A., 208
Lebede Institute of Physics (U.S.S.R.), 251
Lederbe'sg, Dr. Joshua, 204
Legion of Merit (USAF), 236
Leighton, Robert B., 22
LEM. See Module, lunar excursion.
LeMay, Gen. Curtis E. (USAF)
aerospace plane, 265
awards from, 126
missiles, 24
RS-70, 80
space, military use of, 42, 07-8
Lehingrad Medical Exhibition, 72-3
Leningrad Radium Institute, 232
Levine, Charles A., 94
Lewis, Dr. George W., 53-4
Lewis Research Center (LRC), 7, 34
awards, 16, 119, 208
Centaur, 226
exhibits, 137, 139
management, 203
programs, 267
research
engines, liquid-hydrogen, 106, 246
mace station. 137
Liberty eigine, 58
Liberty Marine engine, 58
Lick Observatory, 238
Lieb, Judge Joseph, 201
Life
extraterrestrial, 69-70, 83, 141-2, 190, 206, 243, 250, 251, 274
on Mars, 55, 115
plant, 264