Jul 12 1964
From The Space Library
NASA announced that Europeans in nine countries would be able to watch the Republican National Convention via NASA's RELAY II communications satellite. Television networks in England, France, Belgium, Germany, Denmark, Sweden, Norway, Switzerland, and Italy were to use RELAY II five times during the four-day convention, July 20-23. Similar coverage would be provided during the Democratic National Convention, beginning August 24. (NASA Release 64-170)
NASA announced that four flight tests of liquid-hydrogen stages in Centaur and Saturn rockets had established liquid hydrogen as a new high-energy fuel for space vehicles. Liquid hydrogen, when mixed with liquid oxygen, produced about 35 per cent more thrust than the kerosene-type fuels normally used. (NASA Release 64-164)
It was probable that the Soviet space probe ZOND I, was nearing Venus and would try to send back the first close-up television pictures of that planet, reported Sir Bernard Lovell, Director of Jodrell Bank Radio Experimental Station. (UPI, Wash. Post, 7/13/64)
AEC disclosed decision to discontinue Project Pluto, attempt to build low-flying, atomic-powered missile, despite ten years of effort and $200 million investment. Livermore Radiation Laboratory, initiator and developer of project, had been notified of decision about ten days-earlier. Cause of discontinuation was reportedly combination of indecision, indifference, and lack of support by DOD. (Finney, NYT, 7/13/64, 11)
Abraham Hyatt, formerly NASA Director of Plans and Program Evaluation, was appointed Jerome Clarke Hunsaker Professor of Aeronautical Engineering at MIT. (Boston Sun. Globe, 7/12/64)
Lockheed Missiles and Space Co. proposed 100-ton space station that would support up to 24 men on long-duration earth-orbiting missions. Known as Olympus, the station would be 63 ft. long and 118 ft. in diameter with central hub and three radiating spokes. Each of spokes would carry cylindrical module 18 ft. in diameter and 40 ft. long. (Tulsa Daily World, 7/12/64)
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