Jun 22 1969
From The Space Library
NASA had raised limit on amount of samples Apollo 11 crew could bring back from moon, Washington Post writer Thomas O'Toole reported in Los Angeles Times. Instead of 50 lbs of samples originally set as maximum, astronauts would be permitted to collect as much as they could carry-probably up to about 100 lbs. (LA Times, 6/22/69)
Aerobee 150 MI sounding rocket launched by NASA from Natal, Brazil, with VAM-20 booster carried Univ. of California at Berkeley payload to 102.3-mi (164.6-km) altitude. Objective was to search sky for diffuse and point x-ray sources in 1/8- to 10-key range and for possible existence of soft x-ray galactic corona and x-ray emission from Magellanic clouds. Rocket-first live Aerobee 150 launched from rail launcher-functioned satisfactorily. One source counter failed after one-third of flight; other counter operated perfectly, but door failed to open. Objective was not achieved, but some data on x-ray sources were obtained. (NASA Rpt SRL)
William Hines in Washington Sunday Star said June 10 cancellation of USAF MOL program would eliminate "wasteful, ill-conceived and costly project set in motion four years ago principally to still the clamoring of aerospace lobbyists for military presence in space,' whatever that might mean." Longer term effect would be "inevitable blurring of a meaningless and arbitrary-but still restrictive-line separating U.S. civilian and military space activities." (W Star, 6/22/69, C4)
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