Jul 4 1965
From The Space Library
Six out of ten Minnesotans said in a recent survey conducted by the Minneapolis Tribune's Minnesota Poll that the U.S. should at least maintain its $5 billion a year budget for space exploration. 59% felt the U.S. had outdistanced the U.S.S.R, 10% considered the "space race" about even. (Minn, Trib, 7/4/65)
Status report on MOLNIYA I comsat, launched by the Soviet Union April 23, was given to Tass by I. P. Petrushkin of the U.S.S.R. Ministry of Communication: "Tests have demonstrated that the combinations of the terrestrial and onboard communication equipment of the 'Molniya I' satellite assure the possibility of the reliable transmission of black and white TV, Color TV sessions yielded encouraging results, "On Sundays, via the `Molniya I,' a regular exchange of TV programs is being conducted between Moscow and the Pacific coast, During May and June, tests were also run on the quality of the multichannel telephone system. The systems were simultaneously loaded with phone conversations, tonal telegraphy, phototelegraphy, and radio broadcasting programs. Even under such an 'optimal' regime, the communication channels function fairly reliably, "In June, there was put into operation the commercial long-distance phone link between Moscow and Vladivostok, functioning via the `Molniya I' " (Tass, Krasnaya Zvezda, 7/4/65, 4, ATSS-T Trans,)
Robert F. Thompson, named mission director for NASA's Gemini program on June 25, had decided not to accept the job, UPI reported. Thompson, who had decided "for personal reasons" to turn down the assignment, would stay on instead as head of the landing and recovery division at NASA Manned Spacecraft Center. Christopher C. Kraft would temporarily serve as mission director and flight director for the Gemini program. (UPI, Houston Chron, 7/4/65)
In a newspaper interview, Soviet Cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin expressed surprise that the U.S. had shown primarily military aviation equipment at the Paris International Air Show, He said he regretted he could not meet longer with American astronauts McDivitt and White. (Tass, Zarya Vostoka, 7/4/65, 3)
The Soviet Union's apparent effort to penetrate the world commercial aircraft market was reported by Evert Clark in the New York Times. He said the U.S.S.R. had formed a new organization called Aviaexport to direct commercial sales. It was expected to pick satellite countries as its first target, then so-called "dependent" nations, and eventually the Western countries. Showing of the Antonov 22 700-passenger aircraft and a model of a supersonic airliner scheduled to begin test flights in 1968 had enabled the Soviet Union to dominate the Paris International Air Show (June 11-20) until the arrival of Vice President Humphrey and Astronauts White and McDivitt. (Clark, NYT, 7/5/65, 30)
During week of July 4: Ambassador Tran Thien Khiem, South Viet Nam, visited NASA Langley Research Center. (Langley Researcher, 7/16/65, 8)
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