Jun 19 1967
From The Space Library
TIROS VII, oldest US. meteorological satellite in operation, completed its fourth year in orbit. Designed with a three-to six-month operational lifetime, satellite had traveled 594,000,000 mi, completed 21,600 earth orbits, and taken over 124,500 photos of 50,000,000,000 sq mi of earth and its cloud cover. NASA said TIROS VII, which had tracked the major hurricanes of 1963, 1964, and 1965, was now commanded to transmit photos only occasionally. (AP, NYT, 6/18/67)
NASA and USAF were expected to sign an agreement in fall 1967 for a joint lifting-body vehicle research program, Technology Week reported. NASA would probably have overall management responsibility of program, which would include test flights by USAF's SV-5P and NASA's HL-10 lifting-body vehicles. (Tech Wk, 6/19/67,3)
McDonnell Corp. was proposing an enlarged 9-to 12-man version of the Gemini spacecraft to meet NASA's requirements for a manned advanced logistics space ferry in the 1970's George Alexander reported in Aviation Week. He predicted that MSC would award a $150,000 extension to a $300,000 study contract already held by McDonnell to further explore the concept. (Alexander, Av Wk, 6/19/67,20)
NRL announced world`s lowest recorded temperature-less than one-millionth of a degree Kelvin above absolute zero-had been achieved by Naval Research Laboratory scientists Dr. Arthur Spohr and Edwin Althouse through use of magnetic cooling technique, described as nuclear cooling. Previous lowest recorded temperature had been about 1.3 millionths of a degree above. The difference was of great significance because in this range most physical properties, including degree of orientation of atomic nuclei, varied markedly with even a slight change of temperature. At absolute zero, nuclei of most materials would have the highest state of order possible for the material. New record at Naval Research Laboratory would further advance development of an apparatus to study interaction forces between nuclei and to examine effects of oriented nuclei. (NRL Release)
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