1959 (Cont.)
January 16
project director, considered that for safety purposes, both should be used. He also felt that the recovery landing bag should be replaced by a honeycombed crushable structure. At this same meeting, a tentative decision was also made that design, development, and contract responsibilities for the Mercury tracking network would be assigned to the Langley Research Center.[1]
January 21
The screening of records for prospective astronauts began.[2]
January 23
Funds in the amount of $1,556,200 were made available to the Langley Research Center for the Little Joe development program. The remaining funds of total program costs ($3,946,000) had already been made available to Langley in a previous transfer of funds.[3]
January 25
The pilot egress trainer was received from McDonnell and rough water evaluation of the equipment was started immediately by Space Task Group personnel. (See Figure 4.)[4]
Figure 4.—Pilot Egress Trainer.
- ↑ Memo, George Low to NASA Administrator, subject: Status Report No. 5, Project Mercury, Jan. 20, 1959.
- ↑ Memo, Warren J. North, to NASA Administrator, subject: Background of Project Mercury Schedules, Aug. 14, 1960.
- ↑ Memo, George Low, to Dr. Silverstein, subject: Fund Transfer to Langley Research Center for Little Joe Program, Jan. 23, 1959.
- ↑ NASA Space Task Group, Project Mercury [Quarterly] Status Report No. 1 for Period Ending January 31, 1959, March 1959.
