Feb 13 1967
From The Space Library
U.N. Committee on Peaceful Uses of Outer Space adopted Soviet suggestion for one-year postponement of U.N. Conference on Exploration and Peaceful Uses of Outer Space, scheduled for Sept. 11-23 in Vienna. General Assembly would vote on postponement in April. (NYT, 2/15/67)
Dr. Wilmot N. Hess, Chief of GSFC's Theoretical Div., had been appointed director of MSC's newly organized Science and Applications Directorate. He would assume his new post in the near future. (MSC Release 67-8)
Soviet failure to launch probe toward Mars during January Mars "window" supported reports that U.S.S.R. space program had "run into budget troubles," Newsweek reported. (Newsweek, 2/13/67)
USAF successfully launched experimental aerodynamically shaped warhead from Vandenberg AFB aboard an Atlas ICBM to test reentry characteristics. (AP, St. Louis PD, 2/14/67,17)
Peter V. Dementyev, U.S.S.R. minister of aviation industry, had been awarded the Order of Lenin "for his great services to the Soviet state in developing the aviation industry," Aviation Week reported. (Av Wk, 2/13/67,23)
US. civilian-manned satellite-tracking ship Sword Knot was still lying off port waiting for U.S. clearance to enter Durban, South Africa, harbor, AP reported. South African government had granted ship permission to enter port only if crew members agreed to obey country's race segregation laws. (AP, C Trib, 2/14/67)
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