Aug 2 1966
From The Space Library
NASA's Lunar Orbiter A spacecraft was mated to its Atlas-Agena D booster in preparation for scheduled Aug. 9 launch from ETR. (Tech. Wk., 8/8/66, 3)
NASA was negotiating with RCA for $13-million cost-plus-award-fee renewal of previous contract to operate and maintain three data acquisition facilities. Renewal called for engineering and operations services for NASA's unmanned Space Tracking and Data Acquisition Network (STADAN), operation of weather satellite control centers at GSFC, and operation and maintenance of tracking stations at Rosman, N. C., and Fairbanks, Alaska. (NASA Release 66-202)
Dr. T. Keith Glennan, first NASA Administrator (1958-1961), was elected a director of Air Products and Chemicals, Inc., producer of industrial gases and chemicals. Dr. Glennan was currently president of Associated Universities which operated Brookhaven National Laboratory for AEC and National Radio Astronomy Observatory under NSF sponsorship. (NYT, 8/3/66, 50)
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