First Hop Completed by Conrad
Pi Max Conrad, 65, the “flying grandfather” from the United States, lands Piper Aztec at McCall Field Calgary completing the first leg of a 33,000 mile circumpolar flight. He flew non stop from St Louis in 9 44 hours aiming for pole to pole and equator to equator records. He plans 1500 mile nine hour hops to Anchorage then over the North Pole from Point Barrow to Norway.
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Pioneer 9 Launch To Study Solar Radiation
Pioneer 9 and a second satellite dubbed Test and Training Satellite ride aboard a three stage Delta rocket from Cape Kennedy. The mission carries eight solar radiation experiments to predict flares before the Apollo 8 countdown. TTS payload aids worldwide Apollo tracking network.
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Solar Rays Possibly Caused Premature Soyuz-3 Flight End
Prague scientist Dr. L Krivsky of the Ondrejov Observatory suggested that dangerous solar radio storm radiation may have forced an early end to the Soyuz-3 orbital flight. He noted the forecasted solar activity and that Cosmonaut Georgy Beregovoy’s mission, launched Oct 26, did not complete planned programs.
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