Jul 9 1964
From The Space Library
NASA Nike-Apache vehicle launched at 12:13 a.m. EDT from Wallops Station carried 65-lb. instrumented payload to 104-mi. altitude in experiment to measure light intensity and charged particle flux as functions of altitude. Payload and spent second stage, which were not separated during flight, impacted 98 mi. downrange in Atlantic Ocean. Experiment was fifth in series to measure and study the nature and causes of aurorae and airglow in the night sky during the dark of the moon, project of Rice Univ. under NASA grant. (Wallops Release 64-53)
Dr. Hugh L. Dryden, NASA Deputy Administrator, discussed utilization of space technology for commercial application before American Management Association in New York: "In the present century, the lag from basic discoveries to applications has become progressively shorter. The Space Age is still further reducing the lag. "Two major programs are under way to meet the Congressional mandate for the widest possible dissemination of the results of space activities. The first aims to make available the primary technical data to aerospace scientists and engineers. The second repackages the in-formation and moves space-generated technology out of the agency's laboratories and the plants of its contractors into the non-space industrial complex. "NASA collects, organizes, and disseminates scientific and technical information on its in-house and contractor work by means of the latest in computer, microfilm, and other methods. Decentralization with local access is the keynote. "To be of most use this information must be identified and repackaged to meet the special needs of nonaerospace industries. This is the purpose of the Technology Utilization Program, the first national program of its type. Staffs at each NASA Center are systematically organizing the re-porting of new or improved ideas, materials, methods, and technology developed in the course of research and development activities. The more promising reports go for analysis to a group of industrial research institutes familiar with current industrial needs and requirements. If the analysis indicates promise, reports are published and indexed so that they are readily available to any segment of the economy that may find them useful. "NASA is making significant contributions to the growth of science and technology in most major fields. More important, NASA is dealing with the organization and utilization of expanding knowledge in a highly advanced and, we believe, very effective manner." (Text)
Dr. Robert R. Gilruth, Director of MSC, was one of featured speakers at opening of Houston Museum of Natural Science and Burke Baker Planetarium in Houston. Dr. Gilruth said MSC was negotiating with museum officials for part time use of planetarium for Apollo project. (MSC Roundup, 7/22/64, 1)
George Miskovsky, Oklahoma City attorney, said he would seek reinstatement of Okla. court injunction against sonic booms later reversed by a U.S. District Court. He termed FAA plans to continue sonic boom testing over Oklahoma City while admitting it was a more serious problem than originally believed as "more bureaucratic double talk." (AP, Balt. Sun, 7/10/64)
Lt. Col. Floyd J. Sweet (USAF, Ret.), member of NASA Administrator's staff, became the twenty-ninth member of the Helms Hall Soaring Hall of Fame. He was cited for sustained leadership in U.S. soaring activities as a pilot, instructor, club organizer, and officer of the Soaring Society of America. Colonel Sweet's first glider competition was in 1932. (Helms Release)
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