Feb 25 1964
From The Space Library
USAF launched Atlas-Agena D combination from Vandenberg AFB with undisclosed payload. (M&R, 3/2/64, 12)
NASA Associate Administrator for Space Science and Applications Dr. Homer E. Newell said in testimony before House Committee on Science and Astronautics' Subcommittee on Space Sciences and Applications that some of the byproducts of space research included cure for some types of stuttering, diet that can sustain a man for a month on one cubic foot of synthetic chemicals mixed with water, and "fail-safe" method of producing oxygen and food for orbiting space stations through electrolytic splitting of water into hydrogen and oxygen. (AP, Houston Chron. 2/26/64)
Rep. Donald Rumsfeld (R.-Ill.) noted in the House that House Committee on Science and Astronautics had approved NASA's report providing for electronics research center in the Boston area. "There is, in my mind, still considerable question as to the need for this center. Furthermore, there is considerable question in my mind as to whether, if such a center is needed, as opposed to developing additional electronics capability at existing centers, the criteria used for selecting Boston as the site were sound. . . ." (CR, 2/25/64, A878)
Senate Armed Services Committee approved $17,040,140,000 military R&D authorization bill for FY 1965. Like the House, the Senate Committee voted $52 million for development of new manned bomber. But Senate Committee did not support House on $40 million for new manned interceptor aircraft. Committee made other reductions, restored several House cuts. (Raymond, NYT, 2/26/64, 13)
Sen. Russell B. Long (D.-La.) said on Senate floor that AT&T, "the world's largest protected monopoly," had a "100-percent monopoly in international' voice communications," and that "steps should be taken to require the divestment by AT&T of its international operations." He recommended that RCA, ITT, and Western Union be allowed to compete in international communications and that the Communications Satellite Corp. become a competitor in this area. (CR, 2/25/64, 3389-91)
USAF fired Atlas E ICBM on successful 5,000-mi. flight down the Atlantic Missile Range, testing advanced nose cone design. Same day, USAF also fired Minuteman ICBM from Cape Kennedy and two Minuteman ICBM's from Vandenberg AFB, Calif., within 45 min. of each other. (UPI, NYT, 2/27/64, 17; M&R, 3/2/64, 12)
Maurice Farman, aviation pioneer, died at 96 in Paris. With his brother Henry he made the first flight of more than a kilometer in a heavier-than-air machine, in 1908. The Farmans manufactured biplanes for France, Britain, and U.S. during World War I, in 1917 constructed the Goliath, forerunner of passenger airliner. (AP, NYT, 2/28/64, 29)
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