Aug 27 1968
From The Space Library
U.S.S.R. launched two Cosmos satellites. Cosmos CCXXXVI entered orbit with 627-km (389.6-mi) apogee, 590-km (366.6-mi) perigee, 96.8-min period, and 56° inclination. Cosmos CCXXXVII entered orbit with 323-km (200.7-mi) apogee, 199-km (123.6-mi) perigee, 89.7-min period, and 65.4° inclination and reentered Sept. 4. (csFC SSR, 8/31/68; 9/15/68)
NASA issued Apollo Status Summary: Integrated Systems Test had been completed on Apollo 7 command and service module (CSM), Apollo 8 CSM would undergo combined systems tests at KSC early in week. Saturn 503 had been erected on mobile launcher. (Text)
USAF announced actions to reduce FY 1969 expenditures by $219 million in accordance with Revenue and Expenditures Control Act of 1968. Savings of $18 million would be achieved by deactivating seven F-101 squadrons earlier than planned and closing Paine Field, Wash. Early phase-out would reduce military space authorizations by 2,661 and civilian authorizations by 372 and would remove 126 aircraft from active inventory. Revised production schedules and stretch-out of F-111A and FB-111 programs would save $201 million. Production would be leveled off at combined production rate, below previously approved rates for each aircraft, causing extended force buildup, but not delaying initial deliveries. (DOD Release 800-68; Sehlstedt, B Sun, 8/28/68, A2; AP, P Inq., 8/28/68, 10)
NASA Administrator James E. Webb conferred with West German Science Minister Gerhard Stoltenberg in Bonn on U.S.-German space projects. (AP, Min Trib, 8/28/68)
USAF awarded United Aircraft Corp.'s Pratt & Whitney Div. and General Electric Co. separate letter contracts and $11-million initial obligations to develop and test prototype of high-performance afterburning turbofan engine for USAF FX air superiority fighter and USN VFX advanced fighter. Funded jointly by USAF and USN, 18-mo competitive contracts were valued at $100 million. (DOD Release 799-68)
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