Aug 31 1963
From The Space Library
Results of industrial survey made by Univ. of Denver Research Institute under NASA contract were released, survey based on questionnaires of 988 companies. Results indicated: (1) transfers of technology from Government-sponsored research and development to private industries was the most important contribution of space-related programs to civilian sector of nation's economy; (2) space related R&D stimulates both basic and applied R&D of improved materials, processes, and techniques, as well as new test and laboratory equipment; (3) spy-related R&D output contributed to cost reduction in both commercial manufacturing and fabrication methods; (4) institutional and economic barriers exist and must be surmounted in the transfer process; (5) time lag exists between development of new or improved technology whether through industrial or Government-sponsored research and its ultimate utilization. NASA Office of Technology Utilization would use this information to determine ways of accelerating transfer of NASA's technological advances to civilian/industrial community. (NASA Release 63-197, Text)
Rescheduling of first manned Apollo flight-a three-man earth-orbiting flight-from early 1965 to late 1965 or early 1966 reported by John W. Finney of New York Times. Unnamed NASA official attributed 9- to 11-month delay to technological difficulties inevitable in such a complex undertaking.. (Finney, NYT. 9/1/63,1927) )
NASA Marshall Space Flight Center Director Dr. Wernher von Braun announced reorganization of MSFC, designed to strengthen the Center's dual function of performing in-house R&D and monitoring industrial contracts. In Office of the Director, Deputy Director Dr. Eberhard Rees was designated Deputy Director-Technical, and Deputy Director H. H. Gorman, Deputy Director-Administrative. Hans Maus was designated Director of newly formed executive staff replacing MSFC Central Planning Office. In second major group, MSFC's nine technical divisions were formed in new Research and Development Operations, with Hermann Weidner as Director. Third major group was new Industrial Operations, comprised of MSFC elements concerned with work performed by industrial contractors, and headed by Robert Young. (Marshall Star, 9/4/63, 1, 3; N.O. Times-Pic., 9/1/63)
Research balloon launched by MIT scientists from National Center for Atmospheric Research, Palestine, Tex., was lost when it sprang a leak at several thousand feet. Its payload of instruments, designed to obtain data on cosmic rays, was parachuted safely to ground. (UPI, Wash,. Post, 9/1/63, 2)
Concluding its two-week meeting at Berkeley, Calif., International Union of Geodesy and Geophysics elected as President Joseph Kaplan, physicist of UCLA, to succeed Vladimir V. Beloussov, Soviet seismologist. During the meeting, the 3,000 delegates laid plans for Upper Mantle Project to explore rock layer of the earth and for International Hydrological Decade (1965-1975) to study earth's water resources and for projects during International Quiet Sun Year. (AP, Wash. Post, 9/2/63)
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