Aug 16 1961
From The Space Library
F-1 rocket engine tested in first of firing series of the complete flight system.
The International Academy of Astronautics, meeting in Paris, named Sir Bernard Lovell, Director of Jodrell Bank radio-telescope, as the first winner of the Daniel and Florence Guggenheim International Astronautics Award.
Centaur vehicle C-1 was tested and accepted by Marshall Space Flight Center.
August 16-18: General meeting of the International Astronomical Union at the University of California, Berkeley.
International Hypersonics Conference held at MIT.
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