Jun 12 1969
From The Space Library
L/G Samuel C. Phillips (USAF), Apollo Program Director, announced NASA would proceed with plans for July 16 Apollo 11 launch. He stressed, however, that NASA would not hesitate to postpone launch if officials did not feel "ready in every way. Nor, once the voyage has begun, would we hesitate to bring the crew home immediately if we encounter problems." (NASA Special Release)
Bullpup Cajun sounding rocket launched by NASA from Wallops Station carried GSFC payload to 45.1-mi (72.5-km) altitude to study capability of Bullpup Cajun as sounding rocket system and to test prototype ozone payload. Rocket performed satisfactorily but loss of signal at payload separation prevented analysis of payload performance. Parachute deployed as planned but payload was not recovered. (NASA Rpt SRL)
NSF released Scientists, Engineers, and Physicians from Abroad, Fiscal Years 1966 and 1967 (NSF 69-10). More than 12,500 scientists and engineers had been granted immigrant status in U.S. in FY 1967, increase of 74% from 1966 and 134% from 1956. Immigrant physicians and surgeons increased 30% from 1966 and 65% from 1965, to 3,300. Number of immigrant scientists and engineers was estimated roughly at one-tenth of gross addition to domestic science and engineering manpower. (Text)
New York Daily News editorial said: "For some years, the U.S. Air Force has had an entirely feasible project for orbiting by 1972 a 30,000-lb. space laboratory carrying two men, at a cost of around $3 billion. About $1.3 billion having been spent on the program, Deputy Defense Secretary David M. Packard announced Tuesday that it has been junked, scrapped, scrubbed, in order to save the taxpayers some money. We're hot for government economy. But this looks to us like a most dubious move in that direction. You can bet that Soviet Russia, poverty-stricken though it is, is not skimping in its drive to make space serve the Kremlin militarily." (NY News, 6/12/69)
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