Jun 17 1964
From The Space Library
Space and Information Div. of North American Aviation, Inc., announced that it would lay off workers at a rate that would total 2,500 firings by July 1, 1964, as a result of "continuing studies of changes in the moon program." But a NASA spokesman said the reduction was caused by termination of the tooling-up phase and start of the production phase in Project Apollo. (Wash. Eve. Star, 6/18/64)
FAA announced award of $1,659,460 contract to Raytheon Co. to design, develop, and manufacture data-filter equipment to give the air traffic controller a means of selecting out desired information for display on his radarscope. Delivery of the equipment would be completed in March 1965. (FAA Release 64. 59)
NASA announced it had selected Collins Radio Co. for procurement of a major portion of the S-band tracking, data acquisition, and communications system to be used in Project Apollo. Nine systems with 30-ft.-diameter parabolic antennas were to be provided, at a cost of approximately $20 million. (NASA Release 64-146)
NASA purchased hingeless rotor helicopter, the XH-51N Research Vehicle, from Lockheed Aircraft Corp. for use in flight research at LaRC. The cost would be $556,158. It would be used as a flying laboratory to assess the loads and flying qualities problems that are likely to be encountered by operational aircraft of the hingeless rotor type. (NASA Release 64-147: LARC Release)
XC-142A V/STOL aircraft, built by Ling-Temco-Vought for the Army, USN, and USAF, was unveiled in Dallas. The aircraft's four turboprop engines act like helicopter rotors for takeoff and landing, when the air-craft's wings are tilted. Once aloft, the aircraft flies with wings and propellers in conventional position and attains top speed of over 400 mph. (U.S. News, 6/29/64)
NASA announced Purdue Univ. had been awarded grant of $840,000 to finance expansion of Purdue's Jet Propulsion Center. The construction would enable Purdue to conduct studies of ultra high pressure combustion in rocket thrust chambers. (NASA Release 64-145)
Scientists from the U.S. and Norway sent three gigantic balloons across the North Atlantic above the Arctic Circle to Alaska during the summer to measure cosmic radiation and other phenomena at an altitude of 115,000 ft. (AP, NYT, 6/19/64, 16)
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