May 23 1961
From The Space Library
Tiros II completed 6 months in orbit, transmitting over 31,000 photographs of which over 75 percent have been classified as fair to good for meteorological analysis.
— In a brief ceremony, a bust of Samuel P. Langley was presented by Paul Garber, Curator of the National Air Museum, to the NASA Langley Research Center, during which Dr. Langley's first demonstration of mechanical flight with his "Aerodrome" model in 1896 and his scientific contributions to astrophysics (i.e., the thermopile and the bolometer) were reviewed by Garber and Deputy NASA Administrator Dryden.
"Workshop: Telemetry in Europe" at National Telemetering Conference in Chicago brought seven European representatives together with American scientists in working out unofficial preliminary standardization planning on bands, means, and frequencies.
New 20-inch wind tunnel at the Aeronautical Research Laboratory at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base announced as capable of testing at mach 14, at 200,000-foot altitude, and at 2,500° F.
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