Jan 12 1964
From The Space Library
NASA Nike-Apache sounding rocket with sodium-vapor payload was launched to 106-mi. altitude from Thumba Range, Trivandrum, India, in joint effort of NASA Goddard Space Flight Center and Physical Research Laboratory, Ahmedabad, India. Rocket performed as predicted, sodium ejected as predicted, and temperature and turbulence measurements Were made with ground-based cameras and instrumentation. (NASA Rpt. SRL)
Three USAF test pilots entered Apollo command module at Martin Co., Baltimore, for simulated 7-day lunar landing mission. (AP, NYT, 1/13/64, 9)
USN evacuated staff and dependents (25 persons) at NASA tracking station in Zanzibar, where military coup overthrew the government of the one-month-old nation. (GSFC Historian)
Cosmonaut Valentina Nikolayeva-Tereshkova, wife of Cosmonaut Andrian G. Nikolayev, was an expectant mother, Moscow sources reported. (UPI, NYT, 1/13/64, 5)
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