Jun 5 1964
From The Space Library
The U.S. and the U.S.S.R. reached further agreement during negotiations conducted in Geneva on cooperative efforts in space research. A joint weather satellite program would go into operation by the end of this year. The weather program would consist of the U.S. and the U.S.S.R. launching meteorological satellites on a coordinated basis with the data being exchanged via a special telegraphic link between Moscow and Washington. In addition, preliminary agreement was reached for extension of scientific cooperation in space matters to cover biology and medicine. Although details of this agreement were not available, it was reported to cover a wide exchange of information on the biological and medical problems raised by prolonged manned space flights. The negotiations were conducted by Dr. Hugh Dryden, Deputy Administrator of NASA, and Anatoli A. Blagonravov, a member of the Soviet Academy of Sciences; both agreements were subject to the formal approval of their governments. (Wash. Post, 6/6/64; NYT, 6/6/64; UPI, Wash. Daily News, 6/6/64)
NASA and the Swedish Space Committee agreed to extend for another year their cooperative sounding rocket studies of the upper atmosphere and noctilucent clouds. Under the new agreement, the U.S. would provide the eight payloads and part of the ground equipment on a loan basis. Sweden would provide four of the eight sounding rockets and most of the ground instrumentation. Launching, payload recovery, and other sup-port operations would be carried out by Swedish personnel. The joint studies began in 1961. (NASA Release 64-131)
USAF Secretary Eugene M. Zukert said that the Titan III rocket would make its maiden flight during the coming summer. Eventually, Titan III would launch the USAF's Manned Orbital Laboratory, probably sometime in 1967 or 1968. In addition, Zuckert announced that three firms, Douglas Aircraft Co., General Electric Co., and Martin Co., had been authorized to go ahead with work on orbital space-station studies. (UPI, Louisville Courier-Journal, 6/6/64)
Prof. A. A. Blagonravov, chief delegate of the U.S.S.R. to the U.N. Committee on Peaceful Uses of Outer Space, told a news conference in Geneva that the Soviet Union had no set plan for landing a man on the moon "within the present decade." (AP, Houston Post, 6/6/64)
USAF launched an unidentified satellite aboard a Thor-Agena D booster from Vandenberg AFB, Calif. (M&R, 6/15/64, 10)
Britain successfully launched a Blue Streak rocket from the Woomera Range in Australia. The rocket reached an altitude of 110 mi. and a top speed of 6,400 mph. Because the engines cut off seven seconds earlier than had been planned, the rocket fell 382 mi. short of impact area. The rocket traveled 620 mi. northwest of Woomera and disintegrated over Western Australia. (NYT, 6/6/64)
Dr. I. M. Levitt, Director of the Fels Planetarium in Philadelphia, displayed in Tel Aviv a clock designed for lunar explorers. The clock, designed by Dr. Levitt, accounted for the fact that a lunar day and night would be more than 28 times as long as the earth's 24-hour cycle. His clock showed Greenwich time on earth as well as local time for any point on the moon. (NYT, 6/7/64, 78)
Astronomers at Lowell Observatory, Flagstaff, Ariz., failed in an attempt to sight and photograph red spots in the vicinity of the Aristarchus region of the moon. Conditions were about the same as on Oct. 29 and Nov. 27 when Lowell observers had sighted the red spots. (AP, Balt. Sun, 6/6/64)
A spokesman for Stanley Gibbons Ltd. of London, one of the world's leading stamp dealers, cast doubt on recent reports that the USSR had issued a commemorative stamp honoring three cosmonauts lost in orbit. He stated, "We get all new issue stamps from the Soviet Union. We know nothing about this one." (AP, Chic. Trib., 6/6/64)
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