Feb 7 1963
From The Space Library
Dr. Stanley C. White, of NASA Manned Spacecraft Center told aerospace medicine conference at SAM of Soviet report that Cosmonauts Nikolayev and Popovich lost an abnormal mount of calcium during their extended tandem space flights in August 1962. Dr. White said same abnormal increase of calcium in body waste occurs in bedridden patients after 10 or 12 days; in Soviet cosmonauts, condition occurred “earlier than either we or the Russians would have thought-that is, about two or three times earlier.” Soviet findings had been reported to international astronautics conference in Paris in November, Dr. White said. He recommended that U.S. officials closely monitor forthcoming manned space flights to determine if this condition would constitute a problem; if it did, he said, preventive measures would be necessary because “in an extreme situation there would be demineralization of the bone, the strength of the bone would be reduced, and the bones might eventually become plastic or elastic.” (AP, Wash. Eve. Star, 2/7/63, A3)
Senator Howard Cannon, speaking on Senate floor, said: “. . . It is my personal belief - and a belief held by many others people knowledgeable in the field-that our entire scientific effort in the decades ahead might well run aground because of an insufficient supply of trained technical personnel. “. . . I again ask this body to consider the shortage of engineers and scientists to be a matter of most vital national urgency; and I reiterate my resolve to see that the legislative branch does not default in its obligation to take action in this area.” (CR, 2/7/63, 1949-50)
Dr. James E. Roberts, USAF scientist, told aerospace medicine conference at SAM that permanent five-man space station could be established “in the late 1965 or early 1966 time period.” Such a station, called “Mark I,” could be placed in orbit by Saturn I or Titan III vehicle, he said. Mark II station, three times as big as Mark I, could replace the initial station by the end of the decade. The space stations discussed by Dr. Roberts would be primarily for scientific and engineering research. (Wash. Eve. Star, 2/7/63,A3)
At banquet of “Lectures in Aerospace Medicine,” School of Aerospace Medicine, San Antonio, Southwest Research Institute president Martin Goland said : “Our age is one of quickening technology, of economic opportunity accompanied by sharpened domestic and international competition, of changing social patterns and political structures. In the kaleidoscope of this environment, a major source of strength will be on the side of the nation which is creative and productive; the nation whose people are capable of exploiting for sound purposes the seemingly inexhaustible potential of science and technology. “Within this framework, it seems clear that we must view our space program as more than an assembly of scientific goals and technical objectives. So considerable is our intellectual and material investment in space that we cannot judiciously ignore its by-products, the opportunity to transfer knowledge and capabilities from space technology to other portions of our national effort. Each one of us must act as a catalyst in this diffusion of ideas . . . .” (Text)
Polaris A-3 missile successfully test-flown 1,800 mi. down the AMR, first full success in seven test launchings of the advanced model. (AP, Wash. Post, 2/8/63, A13)
Boston Globe carried article which cited leading electronic industrialists who endorsed NASA’s placement of an Electronics Center in the Boston area. .Public discussion had been triggered by Wall Street Journal article which said that “electronic and other scientific Yankee businessmen are looking critically at a proffered Federal gift [NASA proposed electronics center].” Ephron Catlin, executive vice president of Greater Boston Chamber of Commerce, commented : ‘The story completely misrepresents the true feeling of the vast majority of the business and academic community in this area. “Almost the entire area is in favor of the center, and in fact, working for it . . . .’ (CR, 2/11/63, A663)
Frederick R. Kappel, Chairman of the Board of AT&T , was presented Silver Quill Award of National Business Publications at 12th annual State-of-the-Nation dinner, Washington. In accepting the award, Mr. Kappel said that AT&T’S TELSTAR communications satellite had "provided basic assurance that satellite communications are indeed feasible and practical, and that design and construction of commercial satellites, and ground stations to work with them, can now be approached pretty much as a straight engineering project. There is no scientific obstacle to designing a commercial system immediately, and bringing it into being as soon as the satellites could be manufactured and put into orbit, say in 2 or 3 years . . . .” (Text)
Dr. Robert R. Gilruth, Director of MSC, was named Visiting Professor of Aerospace Engineering at Texas A&M College. (MSFC Space News Roundup, 1/8/64,2)
Thomas F. Dixon, NASA Deputy Associate Administrator, said in address before faculty and student body of Vanderbilt Univ., Nashville, that for the U.S. space program, “1962 was an active and successful year. Among the many and varied accomplishments of 1962, I would like to stress three that have very far-reaching significance. “First, we demonstrated beyond any shadow of doubt that the United States has the capability for manned travel and manned exploration of the solar system . . . . “Second, . . . we completed the difficult round of decisions on how to get to the moon . . . . “Third, in the past year we more clearly defined the long-range goals of our space program . . . . Our long range goals [are] to make America the leading space faring nation and to achieve pre-eminence in all major aspects of space science and space exploration . . . .” (CR, 2/11/63,A656)
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