Jul 31 1962
From The Space Library
Dr. Jerome B. Wiesner, Scientific Advisor to the President, testified before the House Committee on Government Operations subcommittee that getting better scientists in government appeared to be the "most important single problem as I've tried to understand why so many of our programs go badly." Declining to comment on specific failures, Dr. Wiesner pointed out that the Administration sought "to redress unbalances between Federal and general industrial salary scales. . . Such reform is essential if we are ever to reverse the present deterioration in the quality of the technical force in the government service." In testimony before House Science and Astronautics Committee, Richard B. Morrison, NASA’s Launch Vehicles Director, testified that an error in computer equations for Venus probe launch of Mariner R-1 spacecraft on July 21 led to its destruction when it veered off course.
Former President Dwight D. Eisenhower spoke on the people-to-people benefits to be gained by live international communications, broadcast televised to U.S. via TELSTAR from Stockholm, Sweden.
British Postmaster General Reginald Bevins told Parliament that Britain would spend $1,960,000 in the coming year on development of satellite communications.
Replying to a charge that U.K. was playing a declining role in development of satellite communications, Postmaster General Reginald Bevins told Parliament: "I assure you that the British Government is fully alive to the possibilities of satellite communications and when it comes to an operational system, we shall not be left out in the cold." He predicted a global system of satellite communications within this decade.
Donald F. Conaway, national executive secretary of American Federation of Television and Radio Artists, announced he had requested a conference with European counterparts to discuss minimum pay scales for performers appearing on future Telstar satellite relays. He added: "Telstar is a great challenge.. We cannot realistically set an international rate for performers until many problems are settled with the countries."
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