Jun 7 1965
From The Space Library
President Johnson telephoned the Nation's thanks to Gemini Astronauts James A. McDivitt (Maj. USAF) and Edward H. White II (Maj. USAF) and told them that they had written their names "in history and in our hearts," He concluded: "What you've done will never be forgotten. We can hope and pray that the time will come when all men of all nations will join together to explore space together and walk side by side toward peace. And you two outstanding men have taken a long stride forward in mankind's progress, and everyone in this nation, and I think in the free world, feels in your debt," The astronauts, aboard the carrier Wasp in the Atlantic for medical tests, were invited to spend the week-end with the President at his Texas ranch. (Kilpatrick, Wash, Post, 6/8/65, A14)
ITT asked the FCC for authority to lease 41 of EARLY BIRD I's 240 voice-grade channels. (Weekley, Wash, Post, 6/8/65, D8)
Educators from various elements of NASA and a group of 65 lecturers employed in the NASA Spacemobile program began a week-long training session at NASA Langley Research Center. (LaRC Release)
"Soviet spaceships make their landings on terra firma, and practically everybody in the space flight business agrees that this is much more desirable than splashing down in the ocean," wrote the Washington Evening Star. The article said that water landings by U.S. spacecraft proved that "U.S. manned spacecraft lack the capability to come back to land." (AP, Wash, Eve. Star, 6/7/65, A6)
"U.S. space officials are in no particular hurry to develop a ground landing because water landings have worked so well," reported the Washington Post. The article said that the "Soviet landing system-partly due to the Russians' large and sparsely populated land area and their lack of sea forces-required Russian astronauts to parachute out of the descending spaceship." This put stress on the airman-especially after long periods of weightlessness. (AP, Wash. Post, 6/8/65, A14)
Soviet cosmonaut Gherman Titov, who orbited the earth 17 times in August 1961, announced that his wife was expecting a baby in a few weeks. (UPI, Houston Chron., 6/7/65)
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