Feb 23 1963
From The Space Library
Unnamed NASA spokesman quoted as saying NASA had tried and failed to employ Col. Charles E. Yeager (USAF) and Maj. Robert M. White (USAF) as directors of astronaut training for Projects Gemini and Apollo at NASA Manned Spacecraft Center. Colonel Yeager is commandant of USAF Aerospace Research Pilot School, Edwards AFB, and Major White is USAF Pilot of X-15 aircraft, also at Edwards AFB. (AP, Wash. Eve. Star, 2/23/63)
Dr. Joseph F. Shea, Deputy Director for Systems, NASA Office of Manned Space Flight, said in address before Alabama Society of Professional Engineers in Huntsville : ". . . The lunar program is but one aspect of the technological surge which is invading every element of our society. To respond to the surge is to prosper, and maintain the U.S. leadership in the world." (Huntsville Times, 2/25/63)
A one-segment solid-propellant rocket engine of the type intended as the first-stage booster power for the Titan III-C space launch vehicle was static-fired by United Technology Center. Under Air Force contract, the company is developing a single engine consisting of five such segments. Two of these five-segment engines would give Titan III-C a liftoff thrust of more than 9 x 105 kg (2 x 106 lb). They would be the largest and most. powerful solid-propellant engines ever developed. (SID, 4/15/63)
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