Jul 23 1968
From The Space Library
Senate passed H.R. 18188, Dept. of Transportation appropriations bill, by vote of 82 to 2 after approving addition of $153 million for FAA to hire 3,627 air traffic controllers to relieve congestion at nation's busiest airports. (CR, S9226-47; AP, W Star, 7/24/68, A21)
Guidance and control equipment used during Gemini XI reentry Sept. 15, 1966, was being flight-tested at NASA Wallops Station to set up system performance requirements for automated landing for v/sTOL aircraft. Tests were part of long-range NASA research program to develop all-weather aviation electronics systems for V/STOL aircraft. (ERC Release 68-12; WS Release 68-14; Marshall Star, 8/14/68, 2)
July 23-24: NASA launched series of 11 sounding rockets from NASA Wallops Station between 8:19 pm July 23 and 5:55 pm July 24 to gather upper-atmosphere data for weather research. Carried on six Nike-Apache and five Nike-Cajun sounding rockets, experiments included: two Univ. of Colorado experiments to obtain vertical profile of nitric acid density, with two spheres to measure daily density change; four payloads instrumented by GCA Corp. and Univ. of Illinois to measure electron and ion density and solar radiation in ionosphere; three joint GSFC-Univ. of Michigan grenade launches to obtain temperature, pressure, and wind data; and two Univ. of Michigan payloads to measure ambient air density by tracking two small spheres as they fell from different altitudes. Experiments were expected to yield new information about interrelationship of ionosphere and neutral atmosphere between 30- and 70-mi altitudes. (NASA Release 68-134; WS Release 68-15)
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