Jun 19 1969
From The Space Library
NASA'S HL-10 lifting-body vehicle, piloted by NASA test pilot John A. Manke, successfully completed 21st flight after air-launch from B-52 aircraft at 45,000-ft altitude west of Rosamond, Calif. Objectives were to obtain stability, control, and performance data at speeds up to mach 1.35. (NASA Proj Off)
House Committee on Appropriations favorably reported H.R. 12307, Independent Offices and HUD appropriations bill, which provided $3.696 billion for NASA- $63.544 million below original budget, $18.544 million below revised budget, $298.290 million below 1969 appropriation, and $269.394 million below total authorizations approved by House. Bill provided $3 billion for NASA R&D, $53.233 million for construction of facilities, and $643.750 million for research and program management. With unobligated carryover from 1969 of $117.473 million, total $3.117 billion would be available for obligation in 1970. H.R. 12307 also provided $418 million for NSF-$79 million below amount originally budgeted but $18 million above FY 1969 appropriation. It provided $500,000 for NASC, $24,000 below budget estimate. (Text; Committee Rpt 91-316)
Senate confirmed nomination of Apollo 8 Astronaut William A. Anders as Executive Secretary of National Aeronautics and Space Council. (CR, 6/19/69, S6736)
President Nixon announced intention to nominate Dr. William D. McElroy, Chairman of Johns Hopkins Univ. Dept. of Biology, as Director of National Science Foundation. Dr. McElroy would replace Leland J. Haworth, whose six-year term had expired. He was director of McCollum-Pratt Institute at Johns Hopkins, former member of President's Science Advisory Committee, and member of NAS, AAAS, American Chemical Society, and American Society of Biological Chemists. (PD, 6/23/69, 877)
Library of Congress announced acquisition of more than 500 kinescope films of "Meet the Press" TV series covering 1949-65, presented by producer and panel moderator Lawrence E. Spivak on behalf of NBC News. Collection included interviews with aviation expert Maj. Alexander de Seversky; MSFC Director, Dr. Wernher von Braun ; atomic energy expert Dr. Vannevar Bush; NASA pioneers Dr. T. Keith Glennan and Dr. Hugh L. Dryden ; former NASA Administrator James E. Webb ; AEC Chairman, Dr. Glenn T. Seaborg ; Sen. Thomas J. Dodd (D-Conn.) ; and members of Senate Committee on Aeronautical and Space Sciences. (LC Info Bull, 6/19/69, 1; LC Motion Picture Dept)
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