Apr 29 1967
From The Space Library
President Johnson authorized construction of two SST prototypes by Boeing Co. and General Electric Co., who had been continuing development and refinement of aircraft and engine designs since their selection in design competition Dec. 31, 1966. He said he would ask Congress to appropriate $198 million to finance Government's share of project during FY 1968. Construction of first flight model of the 1,800-mph, variable-sweep wing aircraft was scheduled for completion by 1970. (Frankel, NYT, 4/30/67,1; O'Toole, W Post, 4/30/67, A1)
NASA announced it was conducting series of conferences with Apollo prime contractors and "a number of other companies that may have resources which could be utilized to effect the most rapid feasible recovery from the setback to the Apollo program caused by the Apollo 204 accident." Contractors with whom discussions were being held included: Aerojet-General Corp., Boeing Co., General Electric Co., Lockheed Aircraft Corp., Martin Co., McDonnell Douglas Corp., and North American Aviation, Inc. (NASA Release 67-105)
NASA launched two Nike-Cajun sounding rockets, one from NASA Wallops Station, the other two hours later from Point Barrow, Alaska, to obtain temperature, pressure, density, and wind data at 22-to 59-mi (35-to 95-km) altitude during transition from winter-time westerly circulation to summer-time easterly circulation. Both rockets and instrumentation performed satisfactorily. (NASA Rpt SRL)
Rep. William F. Ryan (D-N.Y.) made public the full text of the Phillips Report which had been withheld by NASA. Full report contained no significant information that had not been included in the summary presented by NASA Administrator James E. Webb to Senate Committee on Aeronautical and Space Sciences April 18. (UPI, NYT, 4/30/67, 38)
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