Jul 17 1964
From The Space Library
USAF launched Atlas-Agena D booster from Cape Kennedy with triple-satellite payload. Press sources reported the booster orbited two DOD Nuclear Radiation Detection Satellites and a 4.5-1b. tetrahedral satellite. The three satellites were reported to be injected initially into elliptical orbits ranging from 120 to 65,000 mi. altitudes- ground command signal maneuvered one NRDS into 65,000-mi. circular orbit, and similar maneuver was planned for the other NRDS two days later. The "Pygmy," designed to measure electrons in the Van Allen belts, would continue in the elliptical orbit. Unofficially nicknamed "Sentries," the twin radiation detectors were said to be similar, with minor exceptions, to the first pair, reported to have been successfully launched last October. (AP, Wash. Sun. Star, 7/19/64; Av. Wk., 7/20/64, 24; M&R, 7/27/64, 22)
The U.S. Weather Bureau reported that a hurricane having winds of 75 mph had been located by TIROS VII satellite 1,000 mi. southwest of San Diego- (San Diego Union, 7/18/64; U.S. Weather Bureau)
British scientists at the Jodrell Bank radio astronomy station were reported searching the skies for the Russian space probe ZOND I which was believed to be approaching Venus. The Russians had never revealed the precise mission of the probe and refused to supply the Jodrell Bank scientists with the radio frequencies on which it was operating, but it was believed that the probe would closely approach Venus during the 72-hr. period beginning July 17. (Reuters, Minneapolis Morning Trib., 7/18/64)
NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center awarded 29 contracts involving studies of advanced manned missions. The 29 studies, which were designed to look beyond the time when American astronauts would have landed on the moon, covered the subjects of launch vehicle development, earth orbital operations, lunar exploration, and planetary exploration. (NASA Release 64-175 )
In speech accepting Republican nomination for President, Sen. Barry M. Goldwater said: can see, and I suggest all thoughtful men must con-template, the flowering of an Atlantic civilization, the whole world of Europe reunified and free, trading openly across its borders, communicating openly across the world. "This is a goal far, far more meaningful than a moon shot. . . ." (Text, NYT, 7/17/64, A10)
Two attorneys in Oklahoma City sought a Federal court injunction to stop unlimited testing of supersonic aircraft over the city. The suit alleged that the tests being conducted by the FAA were causing undue mental and physical harm to Oklahoma City residents because of sonic booms. (AP, NYT, 7/19/64)
The British Aviation Ministry was reported to have recently agreed to pay the equivalent of $840 to a Welsh farmer, David Lloyd-Davies, who contended that his mare died of fright when a sonic boom hit his farm. (UPI, NYT, 7/17/64,12)
A report from GAO to Congress charged that SN had spent $13.3 million to put rocket launchers on fighter planes and then had taken them off again because they created too many problems. The rockets had caused the fighters to pitch upward, and in many cases a plane would overtake and collide with a rocket it had launched. The GAO report said that the Navy could have saved about $4 million if it had gotten information available before the launchers were ordered. (UPI, Houston Chron., 7/18/64)
An article in the Russian publication Krasnaya Zvezda (Red Star) reported a speech delivered by Russian Premier Khrushchev before a group of professors and students in Mishkol'tse in April 1964. In the speech Khrushchev noted that in the U.S. "the scientists to a considerable degree are not Americans . . . the U.S. has pirated its scientific staffs from the representatives of various nations." The article went on to call attention to British criticism that the U-S. was drawing scientists out of Britain and detailed the activities of the American army at the end of World War II in attempting to capture German rocket scientists, The article concluded, "We can justifiably be proud that all our achievements in the field of rocketry and cosmonautics, to be sure in all fields of science and technology, are due to the brains and the talent of the Soviet scientists alone, without any help from the outside." (Krasnaya Zvezda, 7/17/64, 4, ATSS-T Trans.)
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31
