Aug 4 1966
From The Space Library
Legal Subcommittee of U.N. Committee on Peaceful Uses of Outer Space reached accord on nine substantive articles for proposed treaty on space law before adjournment after three weeks of negotiation in Geneva. Agreement provided that (1) planets should be freely accessible to all nations; (2) no nation should appropriate any part of them; and (3) man's conduct in space should he reserved to peaceful purposes and ruled by concepts of international law and U.N. Charter. Two key provisions propose1 by US. on reporting of outer space activities and on open access to stations, equipment, and spacecraft on planets were rejected by Soviet delegate Platon D. Morozov, but US. Ambassador Arthur Goldberg told the press he hoped outstanding issues could be resolved when Subcommittee reconvened in New York in September. (AP, Wash. Eve. Star, 8/5/66, C4; Wash. Post, 8/5/66, A16)
X-15 No. 3 was flown by NASA test pilot William H. Dana to 3,682 mph (mach 5.34) and 132,700-ft. altitude in his third flight. Primary purpose was pilot checkout. (X-15 Proj. Off.; UPI, Chic. Trib., 8/5/66)
USAF launched OV3-III satellite with Scout booster from WTR to measure charged particle hazards to space payloads. Orbital parameters: apogee, 2,781 mi. (4,475 km.); perigee, 223 mi. (358 km.); period, 136.9 min.; inclination, 81ΓΈ. (US. Aeron. & Space Act., 1966, 154)
NASA assigned LRC responsibility for development of space vehicle design criteria in the area of chemical propulsion. Howard W. Douglass, former director of LRC's Flox Project Office, was appointed Chief of Design Criteria Office and Assistant Chief of Chemical Rocket Div. (LRC Release 66-40)
President Johnson appointed BOB Director Charles L. Schultze chairman of committee to oversee final review of recommendations made by Nov. 28-Dec. 1, 1965, White House Conference on International Cooperation. Schultze would be assisted by Conference's executive director, Raymond D. Nasher, and White House special assistants Walt W. Rostow and Joseph A. Califano, Jr. (Pres. DOC., 8/8/66, 1025)
American Federation of Government Employees (AFGE) at KSC had charged NASA with preferential hiring of retired military officers for choice civilian jobs-a practice which was "demoralizing" career officials and damaging the space program. AFGE's charge was supported by House Civil Service Manpower Subcommittee, which had been investigating the situation for several months. (Young, Wash. Eve. Star, 8/4/66, A2)
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