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

development programs now approaching expenditures of $12
billion per year.
Proposals to ban orbiting of nuclear weapons, and to seek inter-
national agreement on space activities irrespective of other
disarmament measures were included in the final report of the
second American Assembly-British Institute for Strategic
Studies at Brighton, England.
Reported that the Soviet Union was seeking through diplomatic
channels to establish a space satellite tracking station in Austra-
lia, offering assurances that the station would not be used for
military purposes or for the introduction of weapons.
May 17: NASA postponed MA-7 fight attempt until at least May 22,
1962, because of modification of altitude-sensing instrumentation
in the parachute deployment system. Project Mercury Astro-
naut M. Scott Carpenter was pronounced in “excellent condition”
for his orbital flight after a 5-hour physical examination.
In an address to the Duke University Symposium on “Regional
Implications of Space Research,” NASA Administrator James E.