Jul 11 1964
From The Space Library
U.S.S.R. announced successful orbiting of two satellites, ELECTRON III and ELECTRON IV, with a single launch vehicle. Soviet news agency Tass said the satellites were studying the earth's magnetic field and radiation belts, radiation arriving from deep space, and the physical conditions in the upper atmospheric layers. ELECTRON III was orbiting at 7,040-km. (4,375-mi.) apogee, 405-km. (252-mi.) perigee, 2-hr., 48 min. period, and 60.86¦ inclination to the equator. ELECTRON IV was orbiting at 66,235-km. (41,158-mi.) apogee, 459-km. (285-mi.) perigee, 21-hr., 54-min. period, and 60.86¦ inclination to the equator- (Tass, Izvestia, 7/12/64, 1, ATSS-T Trans.; AP, Wash. Eve. Star, 7/11/ 64)
Gemini-Titan II (GT-2) rocket which was to launch unmanned Gemini spacecraft arrived at Cape Kennedy. It arrived by C-133B cargo plane from Martin Co. plant in Baltimore where it had undergone testing. (AP, Orlando (Fla.) Sentinel, 7/12/64)
USAF Titan III transtage was successfully static-test-fired for more than six minutes to verify compatibility of various subsystems, in operation to simulate injection of MOL into 100-mi. orbit. Officials said firing went as expected, including length of burn time, although no mention was made as to whether it reached 312-second specific impulse demanded by Air Force. (SRO, 7/14/64, 66; M&R, 7/20/64, 8)
Japan successfully launched three-stage Lambda III, its largest and most advanced research rocket, on a flight to collect data on the upper layer of the atmosphere. The rocket attained an altitude of 600 mi. in the 17-min., 20-sec- flight from Kagoshima Space Center in Kagoshima Prefecture, Japan. (AP, Wash. Post, 7/12/64; NASA Off. Int. Aff.)
The Federal government was criticized by National Academy of Sciences committee for plunging into such major undertakings as a moon expedition or a supersonic airplane without assessing the effects on the Nation's limited scientific and engineering manpower resources. The study, made public by President Johnson, said that since the Government supported about three fifths of all those engaged in research and development, it had a "massive influence" on the deployment and utilization of scientists and engineers. This, in turn, imposed an "entirely new order of responsibility" upon the Government to prevent "malutilization" of the manpower and to achieve a "balanced allocation of scientific and engineering talent." Two of the committee's principal recommendations: (1) Steps be taken by the Executive Office of the President to develop an integrated program for collecting and analyzing information about scientific and engineering manpower. (2) "Before the government reaches a decision to undertake a great technological program, it should make a careful assessment of the impact of the decision on the deployment and utilization of scientists and engineers." Nowhere in its report did the committee suggest that the lunar expedition had unduly diverted manpower from other fields; in fact, the re-port showed that slightly less than 30 per cent of the Nation's scientists, engineers, and secondary school teachers of science and mathematics were engaged in defense, space, and atomic energy research, and that space accounted for less than 5 per cent- The study, an outgrowth of a request by President Kennedy in 1961 for a review of the Nation's scientific and engineering manpower re-sources, was prepared by a 17-man committee headed by Dr. James R. Killian, Jr. science adviser to former President Eisenhower and now chairman of the corporation of MIT. (Finney, NYT, 7/12/64, 1, 33; Carey, AP, Wash. Post, 7/12/64)
Journal of the Armed Forces noted that Philip Bono, with Missile and Space Systems Div. of Douglas Aircraft Co., had redeveloped Ithacus (formerly Icarus), his study, concept of a spacecraft which could move 132 tons of cargo or 1,200 troops anywhere in the world in 30 or 40 min. Ithacus was formerly conceived for launch from fixed land site, but under the new concept, there would be seaborne launch from nuclear aircraft carrier of Enterprise class. This would reduce vulnerability of the system- (Haggerty, J/Armed Forces, 7/11/64, 2)
Council of Defense and Space Industry Associations (CODSIA) formed under sponsorship of Aerospace Industries Association, National Secur-ity Industrial Association, and Electronic Industries Association. Council would operate solely as coordinating and communicating vehicle between Government and industry, not as master association. (I/ Armed Forces, 7/11/64,15)
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