Mar 31 1961
From The Space Library
NASA selected GE's Space Sciences Laboratory and Avco Corp. for negotiation of contracts to study feasibility of magneto gas dynamic electric rocket or thermal arc jet rocket engines.
By this date, all stations of NASA's worldwide Mercury tracking network were operational.
Space Science Board of the National Academy of Sciences submitted its recommendation of February 10-11 that "scientific exploration of the Moon and planets should clearly be stated as the ultimate objective of the U.S. space program for the foreseeable future."
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