Feb 12 1966
From The Space Library
France failed to launch research satellite from Hammaguir Range because of malfunction in ignition system of three-stage Diamant booster. At T-0 in countdown, the Diamant booster remained on launching pad. ‘‘(Reuters, NYT, 2/13/66,3)’’
NASA Associate Administrator for Manned Space Flight Dr. George E. Mueller, outlining the NASA manned spaceflight program at American Assn. of School Administrators meeting in Atlantic City, discussed the benefits to man on earth of the Apollo Applications program: “. . . man would have the capability of establishing world-wide, real-time television by placing large antennas and powerful transmitters into synchronous orbit; of establishing control towers in space both for aircraft and ocean-going ships; of using space observations to identify and exploit earth‘s natural resources; and of controlling the weather.” ‘‘(Text)’’
Three US. scientists were elected to Soviet Academy of Sciences: Dr. Severo Ochao, Nobel Prize-winning biochemist, New York Univ. College of Medicine; Dr. Richard Courant, mathematician, New York Univ.; and Dr. Herman F. Mark, chemist, Polytechnic Institute of Brooklyn. Total U.S. membership was now six; five Soviet scientists were members of US. National Academy of Sciences. ‘‘(Schwartz, NYT, 2/12/66,2)’’
US. embassy confirmed that West Germany was negotiating with several unidentified American aircraft companies for technical assistance in removing flaws from the F-104G Starfighter jet aircraft. Since beginning of 1965 29 Starfighters had been destroyed in accidents and 16 Luftwaffe pilots killed. ‘‘(NYT, 2/20/66,9)’’
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