Aviation 1962

Events [ edit | edit the code ]

 * Harmonization of US aircraft designations for the four weapons ( USAF / US Navy / US Marine Corps / US Army ) plus NASA .

January [ edit | edit the code ]

 * 10 - 11 January : Captain Clyde P. Evely establishes a new non-stop distance record between Okinawa and Madrid 168.78 kilometers or 20 aboard a Boeing B-52H .

February [ edit | edit the code ]

 * February 20 : Launching a rocket Atlas capsule Mercury carrying the third US astronaut John Glenn, this time for a real orbital flight.

Mai [ edit | edit the code ]

 * May 6 : first and only shot a strategic ballistic missile sea-floor UGM-27 Polaris with actual nuclear charge of the United States by the USS Ethan Allen (SSBN-608).
 * May 24 : Scott Carpenter is the fourth American astronaut to fly into space in the capsule Aurora 7 mission Mercury 7 .

July [ edit | edit the code ]

 * July 7 : Russian Colonel Georgy Mosolov sets a new world speed record on a Mikoyan-Gurevich MiG-21 modified named Ye-166, it reaches a speed of 2 691 km / h .
 * July 10 : Launch of the first real telecommunications satellite Telstar 1 by a rocket Delta .
 * July 19 : an anti-aircraft missile Nike-Zeus ( missile defense ), directed by radar intercepts for the first time an Atlas missile launched from 7250 km to the east.

August [ edit | edit the code ]

 * 11 August : launching a capsule Vostok 3 piloted by Andrian Nikolayev .
 * 12 August : launching a capsule Vostok 4 piloted by Pavel Popovich . The capsule approaches Vostok 3 and can communicate.
 * August 17 ​​: Launch of the probe Mariner 2 to Venus .

September [ edit | edit the code ]

 * September 19 : first flight of the special transport aircraft Aero Spacelines Pregnant Guppy .
 * September 29 : launch of the first satellite, Alouette 1 .

October [ edit | edit the code ]

 * 3 October : launch of the mission Mercury 8 carrying US astronaut Wally Schirra .

November [ edit | edit the code ]

 * November 29 : Signature in London of a Franco-British agreement for the joint construction of an airliner supersonic, the Concorde .

December [ edit | edit the code ]

 * December 14 : The probe Mariner 2 flies over Venus at an altitude of 34,636 kilometers.
 * December 24 : First flight of the aircraft carrier French Aérospatiale N 262 .