Jul 22 1965
From The Space Library
Results of a recent Gallup Poll indicated that 47% of the American public believed that the United States was ahead of Russia in the "space race." A 1961 poll had shown that most Americans viewed the space race as an even contest. Asked if they, themselves, would like to go to the moon, 87% of the people approached said no. (Wash. Post, 7/23/65, A2)
NASA announced four major personnel changes: Willis H. Shapley, Deputy Chief of the Military Div, of the Bureau of the Budget, would become Associate Deputy Administrator effective September 1, 1965; Dr. Harry J. Goett, Director of Goddard Space Flight Center, would become Special Assistant to Administrator James E. Webb, effective immediately; Dr. John F. Clark, Director of Sciences in the NASA Office of Space Science and Applications, would become Acting Director, Goddard Space Flight Center; and Dr. John W. Townsend, Assistant Director, Goddard Office of Space Science and Applications, would become Deputy Director of GSFC -a new post. When Shapley's appointment became effective, the present Policy Planning Board would be discontinued; the office of Policy Planning would aid him in preparing policy matters for the Administrator, Deputy Administrator, and Associate Administrator. (NASA Release 65243)
President Johnson told a group of young foreign journalists at the White House that he envisioned a day when communications satellites would be able to relay telecasts of United Nations' sessions to the homes of "men everywhere," He added that "from better communications must surely come better understanding." (UPI, Houston Chron., 7/23/65)
Dr. Homer E. Newell, NASA Associate Administrator for Space Science and Applications, spoke at the dedication ceremonies for Martin Co.'s new Research Institute for Advanced Studies in Relay, Md, about some of the progress that had been made in space science: "Because of the space program, geophysics is experiencing a tremendous broadening of its horizons. . . Moreover, geophysics is being carried forward to new domains, as instruments reach the moon and the planets, giving to the discipline a perspective it could never achieve as long as geophysics was confined to a single body of the solar system. "Similarly, the space program is giving a new dimension to astronomy. The ability to observe above the filtering distorting atmosphere in wavelengths not hitherto observable promises exciting new discoveries. "The field of physics finds in the regions of outer space a laboratory of challenging opportunity. In interplanetary space, matter and fields exist under conditions unobtainable in the laboratory on the ground... "It is, indeed, interesting to observe that one of the impacts of space efforts on physics, geophysics, and astronomy has been to draw the three disciplines together more closely than they have been drawn together in the past, In the investigation of sun-earth relationships, a most complex and challenging area of investigation, all three of these disciplines find themselves in partnership on problems of common interest... "The impact of the space program on bioscience is still developing . . . of particular importance is the area of exobiology. . . . "The satellite, space probe, and manned spacecraft give the scientist a new approach to the solution of many important problems. They serve to strengthen his hand-if used effectively..." (Text)
ComSatCorp, in a letter to the FCC, outlined its position regarding ITT World Communications, Inc,'s request to use EARLY BIRD I satellite for live television coverage of the recovery of the Gemini V astronauts. George P. Sampson, ComSatCorp's Vice President of Operations, said that although ITT and ComSatCorp had agreed that technical and operational aspects of the shipboard station would be subject to ComSatCorp's control, ComSatCorp took "firm exception" to ITT's insistence that the FCC designate ITT as the responsible operating entity. Sampson noted the FCC's May 12 decision giving ComSatCorp sole responsibility for operation of the initial terminal stations for the proposed global satellite system and said: "Despite our fundamental concern with the proposal, ComSatCorp is willing to give consideration to a joint application for the operation of the station." (AP, Wash, Post, 7/23/65)
Roy William Johnson, first director of DOD's Advanced Research Project Agency (ARPA) in 1958 died at the age of 59, Johnson said at the time of his appointment: "Space will tax the imagination of the whole world for the next 100 years." He retired in 1959. (Wash, Post, 7/23/65, B8)
Former astronaut Col. John H. Glenn (USMC, Ret.) was suffering no effects from last year's ear injury, reported the Wilford Hall Air Force Hospital in Houston. (Houston Chron., 7/23/65)
Soviet professor V. V. Fedynskiy, in an interview with Uchitel' skaya Gazeta, said that PROTON I had demonstrated the possibility of getting more powerful spaceships into orbit, which, if necessary, could lift into space a crew and a large quantity of research equipment, He said use of the new rocket booster would permit more intensive studies of space, including those that would allow a more thorough research of the physical fields and internal structure of the earth directly from space. Such studies would be of primary interest for geophysics and geology, he said. ( Uchitel'skaya Gazeta, 7/22/65, 4)
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