Feb 15 1968
From The Space Library
Some 25 Mexican and Brazilian scientists began four-month study course at MSC to learn how aircraft-borne sensors could enable them to map natural resources. Program, initial step toward development of earth resources satellites which would carry sensors for international exchange of data, included 12-wk technical course taught by Univ. of Michigan instructors under $92,000 contract; 6-wk field trip to Government and university sensor development centers; and additional 2-wk study at SC. After completing program, scientists would initiate test programs for remote sensing techniques in their countries, first with NASA aircraft and then with native-owned aircraft. (H. Chron, 2/15/68; AP, NYT, 2/16/68, 1)
John D. Hodge, MSC, and Dr. George F. Pezdirtz, LARC, received Arthur S. Flemming Award, presented annually to 10 outstanding young men in the Federal Government. Pezdirtz had developed pyrones, new family of polymer plastics, and Hodge had been flight director of manned flight missions beginning with Project Mercury. (NN; PD, 2/19/68, 289-90)
INTELSAT comsats had carried heaviest load of traffic across Atlantic in their history during interruption of service on two transatlantic cables, ComSatCorp announced. With cooperation of earth stations overseas, ComSatCorp used 177 additional circuits on Intelsat I and //-C. Satellites and stations functioned precisely. (ComSatCorp Release 68-6)
Current U.S. aerospace test facilities were becoming outdated, AFSC Commander, Gen. James Ferguson, told Los Angeles Chapter of American Ordnance Assn. Warning that U.S. was "stretching present-day facilities to a thin point and reaching a limit in . . . ability to 'make do' on a year to year basis," Gen. Ferguson urged that an "imaginative, comprehensive, long-range plan" be instituted for design, development, and acquisition of new facilities. Major facility needs, he said, included: wind tunnel for testing VTOL aircraft over entire performance range,
200-ft vacuum chamber capable of simulating space environment, shock interaction facility to simulate aerodynamic flow and strong shock generated over warhead models and true-temperature wind tunnel (TRIPLTEE) to duplicate flight conditions at hypersonic speeds and temperatures. (Text)
Dr. Stephen J. Lukasik, Director of Nuclear Test Detection in DOD's Advanced Research Projects Agency (ARPA) and Acting ARPA Deputy Director, was appointed ARPA Deputy Director. (DOD Release 157-68)
USAF Space and Missile Systems Organization awarded General Electric Co. $2,600,000 increment to a previously awarded contract for reentry vehicle flight testing. (DOD Release 162-68)
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