Jan 22 1964
From The Space Library
Space News for this day. (2MB PDF)
First intercontinental communications tests conducted with RELAY II communications satellite were successful; NASA officials described the satellite's performance as "excellent." The tests were conducted between ground stations at Nutley, N.J., and Raisting, West Germany, consisted of voice transmissions and radio signals. (AP, NYT, 1/23/64, 7)
NASA announced selection of Eclipse-Pioneer Div. of Bendix Corp. for negotiation of cost-plus-incentive-fee contract for stabilization platforms for Saturn IB and Saturn V launch vehicle guidance systems. The ST-124-M platform systems were modifications of Bendix ST-124 systems used in Saturn I launch vehicle, the modifications resulting in simpler system and reduced weight and cost. (NASA Release 64-17)
Cape Canaveral Missile Test Annex was officially redesignated Cape Kennedy Air Force Station. (Special Order GA-7, issued by USAF CofS Curtis E. LeMay, in KHN-1)
Evidence that the electron is smallest indivisible unit and that the proton lacks a core, as had been postulated, was reported at annual meeting of American Physical Society in New York. Experiments were made with electron accelerator built by Harvard Univ. and MIT and were described by Dr. Roy Weinstein of Northeastern Univ. (Boston), Dr. Richard Wilson of Harvard, and Dr; Louis S. Osborne of MIT. (Sullivan, NYT, 1/23/64, 20)
Dr. Edward Teller, nuclear physicist, testified before House Select Committee on Government Research on the Federal Government's role in research. Dr. Teller criticized DOD'S secrecy in scientific developments, saving practice had been to keep them secret unless it could be proved without a doubt that making them public would be in the national interest. "I think the burden of proof should be on the other side," Dr. Teller stated. "I am pretty well convinced that the Russians have all our secrets and I am even afraid they have the secrets we are going to discover in the next two years. Our industry and our citizens don't have those secrets." (NASA LAR III/11; AP, NYT, 1/23/64, 9)
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