Feb 20 1966
From The Space Library
MSFC engineers Michael J. Vaccaro and Haydon Y. Grubbs, Jr., entered lunar vehicle simulator to begin 14-to 21-day final laboratory validation tests on interior chamber design and investigation of human factors of an enclosed cabin environment. Cabin, 10-ft. cylinder with 7-ft. diameter and 5-ft. ceiling, had stations for performing various tasks-eating, sleeping, taking sample measurements, and completing geophysical assignments. Study, conducted by Honeywell, Inc., under NASA Office of Advanced Research and Technology (OART) sponsorship, would determine: (1) functional relationships between physiological responses and behavior and the time required to perform assigned tasks; (2) how to design lunar roving vehicles to provide crew mobility and utilize cabin space; and (3) how to increase proficiency in performing required tasks during extended lunar exploration. Engineers would be isolated as if on moon, wear long-johns or spacesuits, and eat dehydrated food, but would have radio communications for receiving instructions and equipment to record physical condition continuously during test. ‘‘(MSFC Release 66-44)’’
NASA Aerobee 150 sounding rocket launched from Churchill Research Range carried instrumented payload to 103-mi. (166-km.) altitude. Conducted for Johns Hopkins Univ., experiment measured auroral spectral emission lines in the upper atmosphere as a function of altitude. Rocket and instrumentation performed satisfactorily. ‘‘(NASA Rpt. SRL)’’
GEMINI V spacecraft in which Astronauts Leroy Gordon Cooper and Charles Conrad, Jr., orbited the earth Aug. 21-29, 1965, went on display at Buenos Aires (Argentina) Municipal Airport as part of a U.S.-sponsored exhibit on U.S. advances in space. ‘‘(USIA; Reuters, Wash. Post, 2/21/66)’’
Soviet cosmonauts had had their “psychic state” monitored by an instrument that also registered “the slightest nervousness or lack of confidence,” Ogonyek reported. Instrument, first tried on Cosmonauts Andrian Nikolayev and Pavel R. Popovich during Aug. 12, 1962, VOSTOK III-VOSTOK IV tandem spaceflight, showed them nervous before A6) launch, but with nervousness; disappearing during flight. ‘‘(AP, Phil. Eve. Bull., 2/21/66)’’
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