Jan 5 1962
From The Space Library
President Kennedy released part of a report submitted earlier by Vice President Johnson, Chairman of the Space Council. The report stated that the U.S. had generated a greater rate of progress in space in 1961 than in any other year but that "it is too early to make definitive comparisons as between our newly developing competence and the capabilities of the U.S.S.R." NASA first made public drawings of three-man Apollo spacecraft to be used in lunar landing development program.
Dr. J. P. Kuettner, formerly chief of the Mercury-Redstone program, was named MFSC Manager of the Saturn-Apollo System Integration Program.
USAF Minuteman successfully fired from silo at Cape Canaveral, its third straight success in underground firing.
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