Apr 16 1967
From The Space Library
Astronaut Frank Borman objected to making anyone a scapegoat for Jan. 27 Apollo flash fire and said everyone connected with the program must be blamed. Interviewed on ABC television network with Chairman of House Science and Astronautics Committee's Subcommittee on NASA Oversight Rep. Olin E. Teague (D-Tex.), Borman said he had "never . . . seen safety sacrificed for anything" in US. space program. Both men suggested that the greatest safety problem was tendency toward complacency about dangers inherent in tests. (W Star, 4/17/67, A2)
Delegates from U.S.S.R. and Communist-bloc countries, who met in Moscow April 3-15, had drafted a "joint satellite and rocket launching program" and had agreed to set up a satellite communications program "open to all countries willing to join," Tass announced. No further details were released. (UPI, NYT, 4/17/67, 10)
US. technological lead might be lost because of increasing Vietnam war costs, L/G Ira C. Eaker (USAF, Ret.) wrote in the Newport News Press. He cited examples of this "dangerous possibility" : (1) defrayment of war costs at the expense of other military programs such as maintenance of strategic forces and development of new weapon; (2) deferment and possible cancellation of SST program which "now appears to be stalled on dead center"; and (3) cutting of space program budget and jeopardizing of its goals. "Needed now in this emergency is a people alert and aware of their hazard and determined to maintain the world's highest living standard the way they won it, with technological leadership." (Eaker, Newport News Press, 4/16/67, 21)
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