Trouble Aboard Relay Satellite Shows Power Problems
NASA reports power supply may be lower than normal on the Relay communications satellite after its launch. Tests at Nutley New Jersey will verify power readings as ground stations prepare to begin first experiments in Maine and Great Britain.
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Cape Canaveral
Fla
National Aeronautics and Space Administration
NASA
Nutley
Earth
Robert Mackey
Andover
Maine
Goonhilly Downs
Great Britain
Robert Gray
Florida
Relay
Pleumeurboudou
France
Fancino
Maly
N.J
Rio de Janeiro
Mariner 2 Turns On Scanning Instruments
The Mariner 2 spacecraft, en route to Venus, activated its radiometers at 8:35 a m EST from Goldstone California. The command reached the craft in six and a half minutes, marking the farthest distance for an order signal and initiating a 42 minute scan of Venus surface and atmosphere before closest approach.
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Washington
Mariner 2
Venus
Goldstone
Calif
National Aeronautics and Space Administration
A.m
Mariner II
Mariner
Mariner Venus Flyby Progress Marked by Delays and Storms
AAP photo report notes a 16 minute delay as officials adjust radiometer angles to scan Venus. Coded signals will reach 107 posts in 38 languages, with a NASA news conference and a world distribution plan. Mariner faces a bumpy start and ongoing anomalies but has gathered new knowledge amid geomagnetic storms and solar particle clouds.
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Mariner
Jet Propulsion Laboratory
Goldstone
Calif
National Aeronautics and Space Administration
U.S. Information Agency
High Atlas-Agena B
Venus
NATO Chief Warns Allied Forces Need Strength for Deterrence
Secretary of State Rusk and Defense McNamara tell lawmakers NATO must build conventional force strength to respond to Soviet moves. They discuss a seaborne multinational European nuclear deterrent and share costs, with Europeans to craft political control. The talks touch on Britain and France in the nuclear debate and Skybolt fallout.
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Kennedy
Dean Rusk
Robert S. McNamara
NATO
Rusk
U.S
Washington
McNamara
Europe
United States
Britain
France
West Germany
Germany
U.S. Defense
New Cold Front Darkens North Carolina Weather
The Associated Press reports a warmup followed by a cold front sweeping across North Carolina bringing snow flurries to mountains. Readings reached the 20s in cities like Winston Salem Greensboro and Raleigh while Florida endured a historic deep freeze with major crop damage. Snow squalls affected the Northeast and parts of the Midwest as the system moved east.
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North Carolina
Winston- Salem
Greensboro
Asheville
Raleigh-Durham
Elizabeth City
Hatteras
Wilmington
Cherry Point
Charlotte
Raleigh
Florida
Miami
Ohio
Indiana
Michigan
New York State
Pennsylvania
Maryland
New England
Florida Frigid Weather Hurts Citrus and Veggies in 1889 Echo
Frantic harvests press into Florida citrus groves as a deep freeze cripples oranges and grapefruit. Gov. Farriss Bryant plans flights to assess damage while Florida Citrus Mutual estimates extensive losses despite frost-prevention efforts. Temperatures drop to near 10–19 degrees across cities.
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Florida
Florida Citrus Commission
Doyle &. Conner
Fort Pierce
Stuart
Lower East Coast
Farriss Bryant
Lakeland
Bryant
Boca Raton
Florida Citrus Mutual
U. S. Weather Bureau
Florida Agricultural Experiment Station
Tallahassee
Ocala
Jacksonville
Tampa
Fifty survive Brazilian airliner crash in Amazonas
AP reports all 50 aboard the Panair do Brasil Constellation survived after a jungle crash 18 miles from Manaus. Some were injured, no deaths. The craft last contacted Manaus at 3 a.m. before landing was due. Capt Dalvo da Costa led the flight crew.
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Rio DE Janeiro
Brazil
Jornal Do Brasil Radio
Amazonas State
Jormal Do Brasil
Manaus
Amazonas
Panair Do Brasil
Belem
Dalvo da Costa
Amazon Area
Lima
Peru
Sao Paulo
Balloonists Return From 81,500 Foot Space Flight
Air Force Capt. Joe W. Kittinger Jr. and William C. White landed near Deming New Mexico after 18 hours 32 minutes aloft from Holloman. The Project Stargazer balloon reached 81,500 feet and carried experiments to record star sound and twinkling above atmosphere.
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Air Force
Joe W. Kittinger Jr
William C. White
New Mexico Desert
U.S. Highway 81
Holloman Launch Site
Deming
Kittinger
White
J. Allen Hynek
Northwestern University
Miners Trapped After Explosion At German Coal Mine
An explosion 1800 feet underground at Adolf coal mine Merkstein near Aachen. Ten miners were brought out with severe burns while rescue teams sought to reach others trapped. reports indicated 200 to 300 men were present with about 40 in the gallery where the blast hit.
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Aachen
Germany
Adolf
Merkstein
Thieves Prepare For Cold Weather
In Chattanooga Tenn AP report a parked car was broken into as temperatures neared zero and two pairs of insulated underwear were stolen.
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Chattanooga, Tenn
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