Jun 8 1967
From The Space Library
U.S.S.R. successfully launched Cosmos CLXIV. Orbital parameters: apogee, 320 km (199 mi); perigee, 202 km (126 mi); period, 89.5 min; and inclination, 65.7°. Satellite reentered June 14. (AP, NYT, 6/9/67,3; GSFC SSR, 6/15/67)
Adjustments of Lunar Orbiter IV's orbit were successfully conducted June 5 and 8 to place spacecraft on path similar to that intended for Lunar Orbiter V. Adjustments, which lowered apolune to 2,450 mi (3,943 km) and perilune to 48 mi (77 km) , were made to enable LaRC engineers "to gather useful tracking and gravitational field experience" in preparation for flight of Lunar Orbiter V. (NASA Release 67-154)
Memorial services in Houston for Astronaut Edward G. Givens, Jr., were attended by many of his fellow astronauts and their families. Givens would be buried June 9 in Quanah, Tex. (MSC Roundup, 6/9/67,1; AP, W Post, 6/9/67, B8)
Single global time zone would be advantageous with the speed of communications and transportation in the space age, OSSA Director of Space Applications Programs Leonard Jaffee told the Armed Forces Communications and Electronics Assn. in Washington, D.C. "We are almost approaching the point where the remaining obstacle to global business, aside from the political problems, will be the zonal time differences. At the moment time differences are aggravations to the total realization of our new-found communications and transportation capabilities, but not complete deterrents. . . . Today, if it is important enough, we make allowances for and tolerate time differences-tomorrow we may have to do something about [them] . . . because as our business and cultural patterns change in this space era, these time differences will become intolerable. . . . the space age has already contributed the concept of `one world-one time.' By creating a common time and acceptance of a day not geared to the rising and setting of the Sun, we may be able to extend this to an acceptance of `one day' consisting of 24 hours . . . during which we will make optimum use of our roads, our schools, our factories, our communications and transportation facilities . . . [with] 3-shift use . . . [so that] current facilities could handle three times as many people." "Although junior colleges constitute a major segment of higher education in terms of number of institutions (about one-third), their resources for science, in terms of expenditures and manpower, are meager," NSF reported to House Committee on Science and Astronautics' Science, Research, and Development Subcommittee. NSF report, The Junior College and Education in the Sciences, stated that junior college "share of expenditures for separately budgeted research and development, in 1963-64, was one-tenth of 1 percent of the total for all colleges and universities; for science `plant,' 3.7 percent; and for instruction and departmental research, 4.8 percent." (Text)
FAA Administrator Gen. William F. McKee received Washington, D.C., Air Line Traffic Assn.'s 1967 "Man of the Year" award. (Av Wk, 6/19/67,13)
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