Feb 13 1965
From The Space Library
USAF Athena missile was fired from the Army's launch complex at Green River, Utah, to impact at White Sands Missile Range; a second firing was postponed because of technical difficulties. (AP, St. Louis Post-Dispatch, 2/14/65, 13A)
California Institute of Technology received a $1,645,000 grant from the National Science Foundation to build the first of eight 130-ft.-dia. dish antennas to be trained on distant, recently discovered sources of radio energy, quasi-stellar radio sources, called "quasars"-the most distant objects yet discovered. (AP, Wash. Post, 2/14/65; Sci. Serv., NYT. 2/24/65, 5)
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