Jun 10 1965
From The Space Library
LUNA VI, Soviet probe, would miss the moon by 160,000 km. (99,379 mi.) because of an unsuccessful midcourse maneuver, Tass announced. Engine used to adjust the spacecraft's trajectory could not be switched off, causing a deviation from the planned course. (Tass, 6/10/65)
A grant of nearly $4 million to the Univ. of Minnesota to strengthen its scientific and technological capability, particularly in space research" was made jointly by NASA and National Science Foundation. (NASA Release 65-191)
Astronauts James A. McDivitt (Maj. USAF) and Edward H. White II (Maj. USAF) were flown from Mayport, Fla, to Ellington AFB near Houston for reunion with their families. (Clark. NYT, 6/10/65, 1,47)
First computer landing of commercial airliner with fare-paying passengers was made in London by British European Airways' Trident; touchdown termed smooth by test crew and passengers. Trident was the first civil aircraft certified to employ the automatic landing system, Autoflare, developed by Smith & Sons, Ltd, a British aviation engineering company, in association with Hawker Siddeley Aviation Co. (NYT, 6/11/65)
Formation of a program to achieve a more powerful Atlas booster for future Agena and Centaur missions was announced by NASA, Presently designated SLV-3X, the program would seek a 21,000-lb. propellant capacity increase in the standard Atlas booster by making the top of the vehicle cylindrical and would increase the thrust of three Atlas engines by using modified Saturn H-1 fuel injector and improved turbines, AFSC Space Systems Div. would act as NASA's procurement agent. NASA Lewis Research Center would supervise; General Dynamics Convair Div. was expected to receive the contract. Use of an uprated Atlas would increase the Surveyor mission capability by 600 lbs, and would permit similar payload increases for Lunar Orbiter, OGO, OAO, and Applications Technology Satellite (ATS). (NASA Release 65-192)
W. C. Fortune, manager of NASA Marshall Space Flight Center's Mississippi Test Facility since November 1962, had been selected to evaluate the cooperative efforts of the Government-industry Saturn rocket team and "to ascertain that maximum utilization is obtained from the giant new super rocket family now under development," announced MSFC. (MSFC Release 65-146)
The computer aboard the GEMINI IV, launched June 4, that was to have controlled the landing of the spacecraft was returned to IBM for tests to determine the cause of failure. (NYT, 6/11/65)
U.S.S.R. dominated the International Air Show at Le Bourget, France, with premiere showing of 11-62 186-passenger jetliner, powered by four turbofan engines, each developing 23,100 lbs, thrust, and display of the M-110 crane helicopter reported to have set an unofficial world's record last month by hoisting 25 tons more than 8,000 ft, into the air. Cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin answered questions in the Soviet pavilion. (UPI, Miami Her., 6/11/65)
Curtiss-Wright Corp, could participate in future naval weapons procurement, including the procurement of weapon system trainers, DOD announced. Last March when R/Adm. Allan M. Shinn, Chief of the Bureau of Weapons, testified before a closed session of the House Appropriations Committee he disclosed "inadequate performance" on the part of Curtiss-Wright in connection with the P3-A trainer program. (Text; NYT, 6/11/65, 12)
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