Jun 4 1966
From The Space Library
Role of NASA in aeronautical research and development was examined in Policy Planning for Aeronautical Research and Development, 279-page report released by Sen. Clinton P. Anderson (D-N.Mex.), chairman of Senate Committee on Aeronautical and Space Sciences. Document noted "space budget demands have probably hampered what might have been expected to be a normal growth of the level of effort in aeronautics within the agency" and questioned adequacy of $124 million (about 2%) earmarked for aeronautical R&D out of NASA FY 1967 appropriation of $5.012 billion. Separate budget for aeronautics was suggested as possible solution. (Senate Doc. No. 90, 5/19/66)
It had not yet been determined whether space fatigue caused any physical or psychological problems, but examining effects of this phenomenon had become a medical goal, Dr. Charles Berry, Chief of Medical Programs, MSC, told the press. Space officials believed exhaustion experienced by GEMINI IX-A Astronauts Thomas Stafford and Eugene Cernan June 3 was caused by lack of sleep during first night of mission and execution of complicated and tedious rendezvous. GEMINI VIII Astronaut Neil A. Armstrong said fatigue would be an important consideration in planning a lunar flight which might take as long as 14 days: ". . . we will evaluate that particular thing to insure that what we learn from these Gemini flights will be applied to that situation and used." (NYT, 6/5/66 80)
First seven photos transmitted by SURVEYOR I were donated to Clark Univ. by JPL Director Dr. William H. Pickering as the school broke ground for a $5-million library honoring the late rocket pioneer Dr. Robert Hutchings Goddard . (UPI, NYT, 6/6/66, 42; Berman, Wash. Post, 6/5/66, A14)
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