Sep 28 1959
From The Space Library
Pictures taken from satellite EXPLORER VI over Mexico at 10,500 miles altitude on August 14, were released by NASA. Picture showed crescent shape of the sunlit portion of the earth and crude cloud-cover image.
At the third meeting of STG's New Projects Panel, Alan B. Kehlet presented suggestions for the multimanned reentry capsule. A lenticular-shaped vehicle was proposed, to ferry three occupants safely to earth from a lunar mission at a velocity of about 36,000 feet per second.
Memorandum, H. Kurt Strass to Chief, Flight Systems Division, "Third Meeting of New Projects Panel," October 1, 1959.
