Jan 26 1968
From The Space Library
NASA Aerobee 150 sounding rocket launched from WSMR carried GSFC payload to 99-mi (160-km) altitude to check instrumentation. Random failure occurred in control system, but pointing system acquired two of three target stars. Rocket performance was satisfactory. (NASA Rpt SRL)
NASA Administrator James E. Webb announced resignation of Edmond C. Buckley as Associate Administrator for Tracking and Data Acquisition, and Buckley's appointment as his Special Assistant and Vice Chairman of NASA Post Apollo Advisory Group (headed by Lam Director Dr. Floyd L. Thompson). Gerald M. Truszynski, Deputy to Buckley for seven years, would succeed him. Webb said Buckley had been "one of the architects of this nation's great competence in tracking and data acquisition." (NASA Release 68-17)
UCLA physicist Dr. Willard F. Libby believed icecaps, similar to those on earth, covered Venus' poles and might extend over as much as half of planet. U.S.S.R.'s Venus 4 probe had found surface temperatures reaching 540° F during landing of instrument package, Oct. 18, 1967. Dr. Libby, Nobel Laureate, explained that temperatures between hot equatorial belt and icy polar regions must grade off into area of moderate warmth where plant life might exist; gaseous carbon dioxide cloud covering Venus did not permit animal life as known on earth. (UPI, NYT, 1/26/68)
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