Jun 13 1967
From The Space Library
NASA Nike-Apache sounding rocket launched from Wallops Station carried American Science and Engineering experiment to 112-mi (179-km) altitude to measure neutron flux in vicinity of earth using directional neutron detector. Once proven, detector was planned for use in OGO-E program. Rocket and instrumentation performed satisfactorily. (NASA Rpt SRL)
Twenty-one US. astronauts began a week of training at USAF's Tropical Survival School in Panama. Their first meal was iguana thermidor and baked armadillo. (W News, 6/13/67; AP, C Trib, 6/14/67)
Donald L. Mallick, a pilot and engineer at FRC, and L/Col. Emil Sturmthal (USAF) , chief of AFFTC's bomber section, were selected as pilots in joint NASA-USAF XB-70 research program. (FRC Release 17-67)
NASA test pilot Milton O. Thompson received AIAA's 1966 Octave Chanute Award in Los Angeles for "his contributions both as an engineer and a pilot in the development and conduct of the manned lifting body flight test program." Award was presented annually to the pilot who had contributed most to the aerospace sciences during the preceding year. (FRC Release 15-67)
Average US. taxpayer would not help finance any space program beyond manned lunar landing unless he could understand it and identify with its purpose, M/G John B. Medaris (USA, Ret.) told AAS Symposium in Huntsville. "Putting a man on the moon was a good objective. People can see the moon. They can understand communication and weather information and possible defense benefits from a moon landing. "But after the astronaut puts an American flag on the moon's surface and satisfies the public, what will happen to our program then? We have to have a steady commitment of great resources to keep this program going. We have got to convince the public that there is a link between them and our next objectives . . . [and] give them some sort of objective they can identify with their own welfare." Noting that "people recoil in fear from the concept of the endlessness of interstellar space," General Medaris suggested that public would approve of an objective such as establishment of a lunar colony. "We better forget the spectacular and use a public relations approach like the soap companies do and figure out what the public will pay for." (Houtz, B News, 6/14/67)
ITT had signed contract "involving several million dollars" with Indonesian Government to build Indonesia's first satellite communications earth station near Djakarta. Project was subject to obtaining financing under investment guarantees requested from Agency for International Development (AID). ITT predicted that station would be operational within 16 mos. after finances were arranged. (DJNS, W Star, 6/13/67, A21)
Sen. Howard W. Cannon (D-Nev.) inserted in the Congressional Record a UPI dispatch stating that U.S.S.R.'s Tu-14 supersonic aircraft would be test-flown "within a few months." Noting that US. SST program was "from 3 to 3« years behind the time when the [Anglo-French] Concorde and the TU-144 will enter into commercial service," Senator Cannon urged the House to quickly approve the $198-million authorization request for SST construction. "The supersonic transport is an important program . . . [and] it is imperative that this country proceed with the construction. . . . This is an arena of industrial competition in which the United States cannot afford to finish second." (CR, 6/13/67, S814l-2)
U.S.S.R. preferred "to wait for technical reasons" until its Il-62 aircraft was ready and thus was postponing first direct Moscow-New York flights until "later this year," US. State Dept. announced. Commercial service by Aeroflot and Pan American World Airways had been scheduled to begin in late spring under Nov. 4, 1966, agreement. (AP, NYT, 6/14/67, 47)
Prime Minister Harold Wilson confirmed U.K.'s decision against the purchase of US. Poseidon missiles [see May 11]. Asked in the House of Commons if he planned to keep the House informed on any major changes in the British nuclear armory, Wilson replied: "If you are referring to a proposal to replace Polaris by Poseidon, the answer is that the Government has no such intention." (NYT, 6/14/67, 11)
Current FAA R&D programs were discussed by FAA at its first annual "Report to Industry" meeting in Washington, D.C. Meeting was designed to keep aviation public informed of R&D programs which would result in new elements in the National Airspace System. (FAA Release 67-8)
USAF had developed new transportable "fold away" radar system which could be assembled or dismantled in less than 20 min. Called TPS-44, system would be used in tactical aerospace operations. (AFSC Release 88.67)
June 13-28: Rep. J. Edward Roush (D-Ind.), member of House Committee on Science and Astronautics, attended tri-annual meeting of International Organization for Standardization in Moscow. He urged increased US. participation: "If the United States is to take full advantage of world markets, if we are to have a louder voice in the process of establishing international standards, if we are to be persuasive in obtaining standards of our own choosing, and if we are to have immediate access to information relative to standards which are accepted on an international level, then we must be more effective in our participation in the setting of international standards." (Text)
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