Mar 10 1964
From The Space Library
Senate Committee on Aeronautical and Space Sciences voted (10-4) to approve NASA's report on the electronics research center. (House Science and Astronautics Committee had approved the report Feb. 24.) (NASA LAR 11I/43)
Soviet draft treaty for aid to astronauts in distress and for return of spacecraft was submitted to Legal Subcommittee of U.S. Committee on the Peaceful Uses of Outer Space meeting in Geneva. Draft treaty differed from U.S. draft by providing that country of origin reserve "exclusive right" to search unassisted for the downed spacecraft on the high seas. Soviet draft also specified two conditions for returning spacecraft: (1) the spacecraft must have been launched "for the purposes of peaceful exploration and use of outer space" and (2) the purpose and launching of the spacecraft must have been "officially announced." (NYT, 3/11/64, 5)
Search for fragments from the moon would be conducted this spring in six western Iowa counties by NASA and U.S. Dept. of Agriculture, Goddard Space Flight Center scientist Dr. John A. O'Keefe announced. Western Iowa was chosen after Dr. O'Keefe had found some "promising" specimens there on an exploratory trip last summer. Residents of select counties were requested to turn over any unusual stones found during spring plowing of loess soil areas to local USDA offices. Stones seeming most likely to have nonterrestrial origins would be forwarded to GSFC for further scientific examination and study. (GSFC Release G 6 64)
Astronauts Neil A. Armstrong, Lt. Cdr. James A. Lovell Jr., and Maj. Thomas P. Stafford practiced in the Gulf of Mexico developing a training technique for escaping from Gemini spacecraft, both with and without flotation collar. (MSC Release)
Dr. George G. Manov, Director of Exhibits, NASA Office of Public Affairs died in Washington after a heart attack (NASA Announcement 64-55)
Army Corps of Engineers awarded $1,860,884 NASA contract to C. H. Leavell Co. and Morrison Knudsen for construction of vibration test laboratory at NASA Manned Spacecraft Center, Houston. (DOD Release 207-64)
Patent grant to USN space surveillance system, which detects and catalogs silent and "lost" satellites from its stations stretched across the Southern U.S., was announced. (NYTNS, Louisville Courier-Journ., 3/10/64)
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