Feb 6 1965
From The Space Library
Tabulations prepared by NASA Goddard Space Flight Center showed that more than 1,000 man-made objects-satellites, spacecraft, capsules, and assorted bits and pieces of them-had been placed in orbit since Oct. 4, 1957. Of these objects 243 were satellites launched by the United States or its allies and 94 were Soviet-launched satellites. 103 U.S.-sponsored satellites and 16 Soviet satellites were still in orbit. Of those no longer in orbit, 140 were U.S. and 78 Soviet. Many satellites had separated into two or more space objects or had broken apart accidentally or by design to produce space junk. GSFC records identified 469 hunks of junk of U.S. origin and 182 of Soviet as having orbited the earth at one time or another. Of these, 372 U.S. and 16 Soviet objects were still in orbit. (AP, NYT, 2/7/65, 80)
Among 1965 recipients of the Arthur S. Flemming Award to outstanding young men in Federal Government were: Leonard Jaffe, Director of NASA Communication and Navigation Programs, for his work in communication satellite projects; Dr. Robert Jastrow, for his work in nuclear theory at the Goddard Institute for Space Studies in New York; Dr. Joseph F. Shea, Manager of the Apollo Spacecraft Program Office at NASA Manned Spacecraft Center, for his work in U.S. manned lunar landing program; and Wesley L. Hjornevik, Assistant Director for Administration at NASA Manned Spacecraft Center, for his work in construction of space environment simulator. (Wash. Post, 2/7/65; NASA Notice)
Dr. Frank J. Low, research associate in the Lunar and Planetary Laboratory at the Univ. of Arizona, discovered three halved stars with halos around them which may be clues to stellar evolution. He said he believed these were stars throwing out material that would become building blocks of future stars, He identified the stars as Betelgeuse, Aldebaran, and Mu Cephei. (AP, Phil. Eve. Bul., 2/6/65)
Over 300 Government- and space industries-employed engineers were studying for master's and doctor's degrees utilizing closed circuit television with two-way communication in a program at the Univ. of Florida's College of Engineering. The system had been activated in September 1964. TV classrooms were at Orlando, Daytona Beach, Cape Kennedy, Melbourne, Patrick AFB, and NASA Merritt Island. (NYT, 2/7/65, 80)
Marshal Nikolai I. Krylov, Soviet commander of the strategic rocket forces, said in Krasnaya Zvezda: "Representatives of the aggressive imperialist circles often brag about their rocket-nuclear weapons, In answer to this we can state with assurance that in respect to the quality and quantity of rocket-nuclear weapons, we not only do not lag behind those who threaten us with war, but far surpass them." (Krasnaya Zvezda, 2/6/65, 2, ATSS-T Trans.)
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