Jan 2 1969
From The Space Library
In Washington Evening Star, Judith Randal said world's first successful heart transplant and Apollo 8 mission made 1968 year "of spectacular scientific achievement" but that critics of both events had charged that technology "was being exploited at the expense of basic research and social worth." It did no harm, she said, to celebrate heart transplants and voyages to moon, "but, with the advent of a new administration, it also is worth reflecting what the price may be- when so much else needs doing-of deciding to climb Mount Everest just because Mount Everest is there and we have learned how to climb it." (W Star, 1/2/69, A14)
Apollo 8 crew are debriefed.
NASA awarded Boeing Co. $32,815,000 cost-plus-fixed-fee supplemental agreement extending for additional 12 mos Apollo Program technical integration and evaluation support initiated by Boeing June 15, 1967. (NASA Release 69-1)
President Johnson announced 12 recipients of 1968 National Medal of Science, Government's highest award for distinguished achievement in science, mathematics, and engineering. Detlev W. Bronk, President Emeritus of Rockefeller Univ." past president of NAS (1950-1962) and Johns Hopkins Univ. (1948-1953), received award for "highly original research in the field of physiology and for his manifold contributions to the advance of science and its institution in the service of society." Herbert Friedman, Superintendent, Atmosphere and Astrophysics Div." Naval Research Laboratory, won award "for pioneering work in rocket and satellite astronomy and in particular for his contributions to the field of gamma ray astronomy." (PD, 1/6/69, 11; NASA biog, 9/8/68)
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