Jul 12 1970
From The Space Library
NASA Lockheed Electra remote-sensing aircraft equipped to acquire black-and-white, color, and color-infrared photos and thermal infrared imagery, arrived in Lima, Peru, to help assess damage from severe earthquake. Mission data would be processed at MSC and transmitted to Peruvian government for analysis. Data also would contribute to application of remote-sensing science to natural disasters. (NASA Release 70-122)
Four crewmen sealed into space station simulator at McDonnell Douglas Astronautics Co. [see June 12] successfully completed first 30 days of scheduled 90-day confinement. (Langley Researcher, 7/24/70, 1)
William Hines in Washington Sunday Star praised NASA handling of Apollo 13 investigation: Handling "contrasted sharply" with that following Jan. 27, 1967, Apollo spacecraft fire. "Administrator Thomas O. Paine is undoubtedly directly and personally responsible for the change. Paine seems to be one of the few high officials in Washington with a decent respect for the opinions-and the intelligence-of the taxpaying public.' (W Star, 712170, B4)
Egyptian 13.7-m (45-f t) papyrus boat, Ra II, piloted by Norwegian anthropologist Thor Heyerdahl and seven-man crew arrived at Bridgetown, Barbados, after successfully completing 5100-km (3200-mi), 57-day journey from Safi, Morocco, to prove Egyptians could have crossed Atlantic 3000 yrs before Columbus. (W Post, 7/13/70, A1)
Installation of Soviet antiaircraft missiles-SAM-2s and 3s-near Suez was threatening Israel's command of air, New York Times reported. While SAM-2s did not become operative until reaching 900-m (3000-ft) altitude, SAM-3s could knock down aircraft flying as low as 90 m (300 ft) and reached top speed of mach 3.5 much more quickly. SAM-3s also had better radar and guidance systems, which allowed faster reactions necessary to hit low-flying aircraft. (NYT, 7/12/70)
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