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This item is a Department of State translation of a congratulatory message from President of Mexico Adolfo Lopez Mateos to President John F. Kennedy on Captain Walter "Wally" Schirra's successful completion of the Mercury-Atlas 8 test flight, also known as the Sigma 7.
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Translation of a telegram from President Adolfo Lopez Mateos to President John F. Kennedy, 3 October 1962
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Translation of a telegram from President Adolfo Lopez Mateos to President John F. Kennedy, 3 October 1962
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This item is a Department of State translation of a congratulatory message from President of Mexico Adolfo Lopez Mateos to President John F. Kennedy on Captain Walter "Wally" Schirra's successful completion of the Mercury-Atlas 8 test flight, also known as the Sigma 7.
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Papers of John F. Kennedy: Presidential Papers: President's Office Files
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Mexico
National Aeronautics and Space Administration. (10/01/1958 - )
Kennedy, John F. (John Fitzgerald), 1917-1963
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DEPARTMENT OF STATE
DIVISION OF LANGUAGE SERVICES
(TRANSLATION)
LS NO. 44589
T-52/R-XV
Spanish
[TELEGRAM]
HONOLULU OCTOBER 3, 1962
THE PRESIDENT
THE WHITE HOUSE
WASHINGTON
SINCE I LEFT MEXICO, I HAVE BEEN FOLLOWING WITH INTEREST THE FLIGHT
OF THE COSMONAUT SCHIRRA, AND NOW THAT HE HAS COMPLETED IT SUCCESSFULLY, I
TAKE PLEASURE IN EXTENDING TO YOU, MR. PRESIDENT, MY MOST CORDIAL CONGRATULA-
TIONS AND REQUEST THAT YOU CONVEY THEM TO THE AMERICAN PEOPLE, THE COSMONAUT,
AND ALL THOSE WHO HAVE WORKED WITH HIM IN THIS UNDERTAKING, WHICH WILL
UNDOUBTEDLYUCONTRIBUTE TO THE ADVANCEMENT OF SCIENCE, * FOR THE BENEFIT
OF
ALL MANKIND.
ADOLFO LOPEZ MATEOS, PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED MEXICAN STATES
* The Spanish text has only the letters CIA here, which are taken to be
the end of the word SCIENCIA. - LS