Aug 19 1967
From The Space Library
Negotiations were being conducted in Washington, D.C., to move Canada's High Altitude Research Project (HARP) from McGill Univ. to Univ. of Vermont, Jay Walz reported in the New York Times. Move was a result of Canada's decision to cut off funding because it believed program should be self-supporting. HARP, which maintained a launch site in Highwater, Quebec, near the Vermont border, used 16-in naval guns to launch payloads inexpensively into the ionosphere for scientific and meteorological experiments. Project, which received about $1.2 million annually from US. Army, employed 50 persons at McGill Univ., 70 at Highwater, and 60 at a launch site in Barbados, West Indies. (Walz, NYT, 8/20/67,20)
An unusual sequence of Soviet launches had led some US. officials to conclude that U.S.S.R. was testing techniques for reentering warheads from space, Evert Clark reported in the New York Times. "This could mean that the Russians are developing weapons to be stationed in orbit. Weapon re-entry techniques can be tested with or without the use of weapons, and the same re-entry techniques can be used for either nuclear or conventional weapons." Clark said all of the flights (1) were very short, (2) had been launched from Tyuratam range, (3) had entered orbits with 49° inclination, and (4) had been given a Cosmos number. A resolution adopted by the U.N. General Assembly in 1963 asked all nations to refrain from orbiting weapons of mass destruction. The question of whether resolution prohibited the development of such weapons had never been clarified, Clark said. (Clark, NYT, 8/20/67, 17)
Hugo Gernsback, an inventor, author, editor, and publisher who was often called the father of modern science fiction, died in New York at age 83. Gernsback described radar in 1911-35 yrs before communications experts bounced a radar signal off the moon. In 1927 he began publishing Amazing Stories, one of the earliest magazines devoted entirely to science fiction. In 1928 he sponsored New York's first television broadcasts: images only slightly larger than postage stamps were received on crude scanners owned by 2,000 amateurs. (NYT, 8/21/67,29)
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