* Atlas Computer ( Manchester ) ( 1962 – 1971 ), an early computer built at the University of Manchester

** Atlas Major, a Standard Motor Company van 1962 – 1963

* Atlas ( 1927 – 1962 ), a LMS Royal Scot Class steam locomotive

* 1962 – Leonard Bernstein causes controversy with his remarks from the podium during a New York Philharmonic concert featuring Glenn Gould performing Brahms ' First Piano Concerto.

* 1903 – Mickey Cochrane, American baseball player ( d. 1962 )

* 1962 – Iris Häussler, German artist

* 1901 – Lowell Stockman, American politician ( d. 1962 )

* 1962 – Art Alexakis, American singer, composer, and guitarist ( Everclear, Colorfinger, and The Easy Hoes )

* 1962 – Nobuhiko Takada, Japanese mixed martial arts fighter and wrestler

* 1962 – The Mariner 2 unmanned space mission is launched to Venus by NASA.

* 1962 – Vic Mignogna, American voice actor, singer, and director

* 1962 – Adam Oates, Canadian ice hockey player

* 1962 – Jamaica becomes independent from the United Kingdom.

* 1892 – Hoot Gibson, American actor ( d. 1962 )

* 1962 – Marc Lavoine, French singer and actor

* 1962 – Michelle Yeoh, Malaysian-Hong Kong actress

* 1872 – Archduke Joseph August of Austria, Austrian field marshal ( d. 1962 )

* 1962 – Louis Lipps, American football player

* 1962 – Kevin Mack, American football player

* 1962 – John " Hot Rod " Williams, American basketball player

* 1962 – Representatives from the Russian Orthodox Church and Vatican City meet in Metz, France, and come to an agreement wherein the Russian church would send observers to the Second Vatican Council and in exchange, the Roman Catholic Church would refuse to condemn Communism.

* 1879 – John Ireland, English composer ( d. 1962 )

* 1890 – Ellen Osiier, Danish fencer ( d. 1962 )

* 1962 – Thanos Kalliris, Greek singer-songwriter ( Bang )

* 1962 – John Slattery, American actor

In September 1962, by which time two Project Mercury astronauts had orbited the Earth, Gilruth had moved his organization to rented space in Houston, and construction of the MSC facility was under way, Kennedy visited Rice to reiterate his challenge in a famous speech:

The late author Sheldon H. Harris in his book " Factories of Death: Japanese Biological Warfare, 1932-1945, and the American cover up " wrote that, The test program, could be part of Project AGILE or Project OCONUS which began in fall 1962 and which was funded at least through fiscal year 1963, was considered by the Chemical Corps to be “ an ambitious one .” The tests were designed to cover “ not only trials at sea, but Arctic and tropical environmental tests as well .” The tests, presumably, were conducted at what research officers designated, but did not name, “ satellite sites .” These sites were located both in the continental United States and in foreign countries.

Cockpit of a glider with its black joystick visibleA Project Gemini joystick-type hand controller, 1962

* 1962 – Project Mercury: American astronaut Scott Carpenter orbits the Earth three times in the Aurora 7 space capsule.

* Donald Kent " Deke " Slayton, USAF ( 1924 – 1993 ); grounded in 1962, but reinstated in 1972 and flew on the Apollo-Soyuz Test Project in 1975.

* 1962 – Project Mercury: Sigma 7 is launched from Cape Canaveral, with Astronaut Wally Schirra aboard, for a six-orbit, nine-hour flight.

The Project Mercury astronauts with a model of an SM-65 Atlas | Atlas rocket, July 12, 1962.

In 1962, the Soviet Union also performed a series of three EMP-producing nuclear tests in space over Kazakhstan, which were the last in the series called " The K Project ".

In the Spring of 1962, with funds from the Voter Education Project, SNCC / COFO began voter registration organizing in the Mississippi Delta area around Greenwood, and the areas surrounding Hattiesburg, Laurel, and Holly Springs.

In retirement, Groves wrote an account of the Manhattan Project entitled Now It Can Be Told, originally published in 1962.

In Laos the agency began " Project Pincushion " in 1962 for that reason.

The first modified ( in fact simplified ) Hasselblad 500C cameras were used on the last two Project Mercury missions in 1962 and 1963.

IBM 7090's at NASA's Project Mercury, 1962.

After 1962 a similar operation known as Project 404 fielded numerous U. S. Army attachés ( ARMA ) and air attachés ( AIRA ) to the U. S. embassy in Vientiane.

After being chosen for Project Mercury in 1959, Carpenter served as backup pilot for John Glenn, who flew the first U. S. orbital mission aboard Friendship 7 in February 1962.

* Film: Park Hill Housing Project ( 1962 )

Between 1958 and 1963, when NASA started Project Mercury, LaRC served as the main office of the Space Task Group, with the office being transferred to the Manned Spacecraft Center ( now the Lyndon B. Johnson Space Center ) in Houston in 1962 – 63.

The classified, underground facility, named " Project Greek Island ", was built at the same time as the West Virginia Wing, an above-ground addition to the hotel, from 1959 to 1962.

* Henry Markram ( born 1962 ), Director of the Blue Brain Project at École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne

The seedings into Hurricane Esther led to the establishment of Project Stormfury in 1962.

Pomerene A Nonarithmetical System Extension, pp 254-271 in W. Buchholz, Planning a Computer System: Project Stretch, McGraw-Hill, 1962.

The Kennedy Administration promoted a Voter Education Project which led to 688, 800 between the 1st of April 1962 and the 1st of November 1964, while the Civil Rights Division brought over forty-two suits in four states in order to secure voting rights for blacks.

Kelly was the Project Engineer, Engineering Manager and Deputy Program Manager for Grumman Aircraft's Apollo Lunar Module ( 1962 – 1970 ).