Jul 3 1962
From The Space Library
Stratoscope II balloon failed to reach planned altitude and ejected dummy payload prematurely. Sponsored by NASA, National Science Foundation (NSF), and the Office of Naval Research (ONR), the 77-story-high balloon was on its final test launching for use as a carrier of a 36-in.-lens telescope to an 80,000-ft. altitude to photograph stars and the planets.
ARIEL discovery of a new ion belt, at an altitude of 450 to 500 miles, was announced at the International Conference on the Ionosphere, London, by Prof. James Sayers of Birmingham University. Previous measurements had led physicists to believe that the ionization levels declined gradually above 200 miles.
NASA Administrator James E. Webb announced establishment of NASA's Northeastern Operations Office, to be located in the Boston, Massachusetts, area. The office will coordinate NASA's liaison with university and business contractors in the northeast United States.
Reported that the U.S. would send a Mariner B spacecraft to Mars in late 1964, to land on the red planet in early 1965. The launching of this heavily instrumented probe would mark the beginning of the scientific search for extraterrestrial life.
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