FIRST MAN IN SPACE

Press, Volume XCIX, Issue 29177, 11 April 1960, Page 23

FIRST MAN IN SPACE

100-Mile Flight Planned Press Association—Copyright) ATLANTA (Georgia), April 9. America s first man into space will travel a ballistic orbit and will land safely in the Atlantic after vending a fraction of an hour in the higher atmosphere. The director of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration Office for the United Nations conference on peaceful uaes of outer space (Dr. John Hagen) told a press conference this last night Dr. Hagen said fiie astronaut would travel at a speed of about 15,000 miles an hour during has short ride. Dr. Hagen said that an Atlas missile probably would be used to put an astronaut into a satellite orbit next year. The test, tentatively fixed for the late (northern) summer of 1961. would attempt to send the astronaut into three orbits before bringing him back to earth. Last January, Dr. T. Keith Glennan, the head of N.A.S.A., raid in a report to Congress that some of the seven astronauts would make “up-and-down” test rides in 1960. They would be fired from the Cape Canaveral missile range about 100 miles up but no orbits would be attempted, he said then.