Jun 24 1967
From The Space Library
Christopher C. Kraft, Jr., Director of Flight Operations at MSC, received Virginia Press Assn.'s (VPA) "Virginian of the Year" award at joint banquet of the VPA and National Newspaper Assn. (NNA) during NNA's annual meeting in Richmond. Kraft said US. might miss 1970 target date to land the first man on the moon. "If we are lucky, and if everything works well, we can probably do it. But if we have a normal share of problems, as happens with any large research effort, then I don't think we can." (AP, W Star, 6/26/67, B5)
June 24-25: Series of three NASA Nike-Cajun sounding rockets launched from Natal, Brazil, carried GSFC-instrumented experiments to obtain wind, temperature, pressure, and density data at intervals within 24-hr period near the fall equinox. These data would be used to investigate validity of the thermally driven diurnal tide theory of the upper atmosphere. Rocket and instrumentation performance was satisfactory, and good experimental results were expected after data analysis. (NASA Rpt SRL)
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