Feb 18 1966
From The Space Library
Space News for this day. (2MB PDF)
President Johnson submitted NSF’s report on weather modification research to Congress and said “highly encouraging steps are being taken toward establishing safe and effective programs for modifying the weather.” The President, a supporter of weather-control research, said: “We can now begin to see the day when such programs ma become operationally feasible.” ‘‘(Pres. Doc., 2/21/66, 233; N Y 3 2/19/66,29)’’
NASA Deputy Administrator Robert C. Seamans, Jr., testifying on NASA FY 1967 budget authorization before the House Committee on Science and Astronautics’ Subcommittee on Manned Space Flight, discussed use of Apollo/Saturn systems in proposed Apollo Applications (AA) program: “In the last half of FY 1966 and during FY 1967 we will define those new and useful missions that will be able to take advantage of exciting opportunities provided by the capabilities of the developed and available flight hardware. Together with Project Voyager, a major new unmanned system for the exploration of the planets, the Apollo Applications effort represents that next family of major flight missions which we will be recommending for approval and authorization in the coming years.” He cited three basic elements of AA effort foreseen by NASA: “We believe we can improve the basic Apollo space vehicle capabilities with minor modifications to extend the manned time in orbit from 2 weeks to 45 days and longer; we can procure additional spacecraft and launch vehicles for new, or follow-on, missions beyond the time frame of the current Apollo schedule; if the program can be carried out along the lines of our most optimistic scheduling, we will find that, within the approved and programmed Apollo schedule, there are up to nine vehicles ‘‘(NASA Auth. Hearings, 5-6)’’
25 scientific experiments for sixth Orbiting Geophysical Observatory (OGO-F), scheduled for launch into polar orbit in 1968, were selected by Dr. Homer E. Newell, NASA Associate Administrator for Space Science and Applications, on recommendation of OSSA’s Space Science Steering Committee. Fifty-five scientists at U.S. and foreign universities, industrial firms, and Government laboratories would make correlative experiments of near-earth space phenomena based on data from the OGO-F experiments. ‘‘(NASA Release 66-36)’’
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