Jul 22 1967
From The Space Library
NASA successfully launched first of five Nike-Apache sounding rockets from NASA Wallops Station but canceled remaining four in the dusk-to-dawn series of launches because of unfavorable weather. Rocket ejected a trimethylaluminum (TMA) vapor trail of bluish color between 50-and 125-mi altitudes in experiment to measure wind velocities and directions at various altitudes in the upper atmosphere. Launching were conducted for GCA Corp., under contract to GSFC. OSSA had overall program responsibility. (NASA Release 67-179; WS Release 67-25; W Post, 7/23/67, A3 )
NAA's incentive fees for the Apollo Command Module (CM) destroyed in Jan. 27 fire would be reduced by NASA to $41 million, Sen. Clinton P. Anderson (D-N. Mex.) , Chairman of Senate Aeronautical and Space Sciences Committee, told the press. He said information provided him showed "that amount is $15 million at North American's estimated potential incentive earn been if the accident had not occurred.)y Senator Anderson said he believed the settlement was realistic and fair: "A stricter penalty would have served no purpose and could have adverse effects on the relationship between [NASA and NAA] ." (Text)
Twelve science experts met in Washington, D.C., to discuss implementing the April 13 promise made by 20 Latin American Presidents at Punta del Este, Uruguay, to "harness science and technology for the service of our [440 million] peoples." MIT Chancellor Dr. James R. Killian, US. representative, told the New York Times that "it would be of enormous value and importance if we were able to devise a quick transfer of what is already available, both within the other Latin countries and between the United States and the others." Strengthening of existing "centers of excellence" in science and engineering, and the creation of multinational centers that would overcome the problems of national boundaries could rapidly increase the diffusion of skills among Latin American industries and society, he said. (Clark, NYT, 7/23/67, 52)
John Cobb Cooper, former president of International Institute of Space Law and founder of McGill Univ.'s Institute of International Air Law, died in Princeton, N.J. Cooper devised a legal code for outer space in 1961 when he was legal adviser to the International Air Transport Assn. Code included recommendations that: (1) the lower boundary of outer space be fixed at the point above the earth's surface where it is possible to launch a satellite into orbit at least once around the earth; (2) outer space have the same status as the high seas, and that no one be permitted to assert sovereignty over outer space or any celestial body in it; (3) satellites and other spacecraft have the nationality of the country that launched them unless otherwise agreed; and (4) a nation have the right to take action in outer space for its self-protection and self-defense. (NYT, 7/24/67, 27`)
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