Jan 30 1967
From The Space Library
Separate memorial services were held in Houston for Astronauts Virgil I. Grissom and Edward H. White II. Among those attending were Dr. Wernher von Braun, Director of MSFC; Dr. Robert Gilruth, Director of MSC; Dr. George E. Mueller, NASA Associate Administrator for Manned Space Flight; Astronaut Alan B. Shepard; and former Astronaut John H. Glenn. (Hines, W Star, 1/30/67,1)
NASA had awarded Electro Optical Systems, Inc., a $2-million contract for design, fabrication, and testing of the power subsystem for the 1969 Mariner Mars mission. (NASA Release 67-17)
Princeton Univ. physicist Dr. Roman Smoluchowski told annual meeting of American Physical Society in New York that huge amounts of energy emitted by Jupiter-three times the amount it received from the sun-could be accounted for by a gradual shrinking of the planet. Dr. Smoluchowski said that Jupiter was losing gravitational energy because it was shrinking about 1/50th of an inch a year, and that it was this lost energy that it was emitting. Shrinkage was occurring, he reported, because liquid and solid molecular forms of hydrogen, which comprise planet's outermost layer, were gradually being compressed into metallic hydrogen, which comprises the next innermost layer. Rate of compression, according to Dr. Smoluchowski's calculations, would yield just the right amount of shrinkage to account for the observed amount of energy Jupiter emits. (NYT, 1/31/67, C52)
U.S.S.R. had perfected and tested an antimissile device that used x-rays generated by a nuclear blast to paralyze or disintegrate incoming missiles hundreds of miles from their targets, U.S. News & World Report said. There was no comment from DOD. (US News, 1/67)
January 30-31 : NASA launched 18 sounding rockets in sets of two at two- hour intervals from Churchill Research Range and Pt. Barrow, Alaska, between 6:15 p.m. and 8:20 a.m. EST to gather meteorological data between 12- and 124-mi altitudes. Twelve Nike-Apaches launched from Churchill ejected vapor cloud experiments between 43- and 124-mi altitudes; drift of vapor trails was recorded photographically to obtain data on wind directions and speeds. Six Nike-Cajuns launched from Pt. Barrow carried acoustic grenades which were ejected and detonated at programed altitudes to provide correlative data on atmospheric conditions. Experiment series was being conducted by GSFC under OSSA direction. (NASA Release 67-13)
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