Jan 3 1967
From The Space Library
Group of NASA officials, headed by MSFC Director Dr. Wernher von Braun, arrived at McMurdo Station in the Antarctic beginning 10- day expedition to observe environmental conditions-including temperatures, isolation factors, and survival techniques - for comparison and possible application to problems of space flight. (MSC Roundup; NYT, 1/4/67,10; Ap, W Post, 12/22/67, A21)
Joseph J. Tymczyszyn, a senior FAA test pilot and chief of FAA's West Coast Supersonic Transport Development Field Office, had emerged as the test pilot most likely to certify the SST, Mitchell Gordon disclosed in the Wall Street Journal. Tymczyszyn, certifier of both the Boeing 707 and the Douglas DC-8 jetliners for US. service, had already spent four years familiarizing himself with SST operation, and had logged more than 1,000 hrs in SST simulators. (Gordon, WSJ, 1/3/67,1)
Philadelphia Inquirer praised success of U.S.S.R.'s Luna XIII and urged that U.S. continue its intensive lunar-landing program : "Space treaty or no space treaty, the competitive moon race goes on and even though nobody really likes the idea, the US. has to try to do better than the Soviet Union's Luna XIII. . . . "No one can guess for certain what strategic role it [the moon] might play if . . . the Soviet Union were to make technological advances that would enable it to deny the use of space to the rest of the world. "Luna XIII has chalked up a meaningful achievement for the Russian space program. Americans should not be tempted to underrate it." (P Inq, 1/3/67).
Underground nuclear detonation conducted Dec. 3, 1966, by AEC for ARPA had confirmed decoupling theory-that an underground explosion could be muffled significantly by firing it in a cavity-DOD announced. Further experiments would be conducted under Project Sterling to "develop a better understanding of the problems of seismic detection." (DOD Release 10-67)
USAF announced plans to train 3,247 pilots a year-an increase of 15% over present level-and provide a ninth Undergraduate Pilot Training (UPT) facility at Randolph AFB. Increase was required because of Vietnam war. (DOD Release 2-67; AP, NYT, 1/4/67,30)
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