Jun 19 1964
From The Space Library
TIROS VII completed one year in orbit with all components working as well as the day it was launched. During the past year, the satellite transmitted about 70,000 pictures to earth, 90 per cent of them usable. and spotted 16 hurricanes and typhoons. (NASA Release 64-144)
President Johnson was shown lunar landing research vehicle and X-15 during visit to Edwards AFB. It was first public showing of the lunar craft. The President said: "No one can come here and doubt that America is, and will remain, first in the world in the strength, the diversity, and the genius of its defense." (N.Y. Her. Trib., 6/20/64)
USAF launched Thor-Agena D booster from WTR with undisclosed satellite payload. (HHN-4 8 )
Navy dedicated 61-inch astrometric reflector telescope at Naval Observatory, Flagstaff, Ariz. Its quartz primary mirror was largest quartz reflecting surface manufactured to date. It would be used primarily to study white dwarf, red dwarf, and sub-dwarf stars. (Wash. Post, 6/18/64)
Labor Dept's new edition of government handbook on job classifications was to include 6,000 job titles not in existence when the last edition was published several years before, a reflection of the technological upheaval which had occurred in science and industry. (Houston Post, 6/19/64)
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