Mar 7 1965
From The Space Library
COSMOS LIX satellite, containing "scientific apparatus," was orbited by the U.S.S.R, Initial orbital data: apogee, 339 km. (210.9 mi.) ; perigee, 209 km. (129.6 mi.) ; period, 89.7 min.; inclination, 65°. Equipment was said to be functioning normally. (Krasnaya Zvezda, 3/9/65, 1, ATSS-T Trans.)
Commercial aviation's first nonstop crossing of the Pacific was made by Qantas Airlines Boeing 707: San Francisco to Sydney in 14 hrs., 33 min. (Wash. Daily News, 3/8/65)
DMS, Inc., aerospace market intelligence operation that published annual analysis of DOD and NASA budget requests submitted to Congress, forecast a $106.57 billion market for the aerospace industry from 1966-1970, an increase of 13% for the five-year period. DMS preferred this "generally favorable market climate," to the "glorified major growth period of fiscal 1962-1964, when Government spending skyrocketed, inevitably producing an influx of hopeful though unusually ill-equipped competitors, followed by over-capacity as the market tapered off, and finally a retrenchment still under way." (NYT, 3/7/65)
A "Dictionary of Scientific Biography" containing essays on careers of scientists and mathematicians would be published by Scribner with a National Science Foundation grant of more than $250,000. Dr. Charles C. Gillispie, Princeton professor of History of Science, had been named Editor-in-Chief. (NYT, 3/7/65, Book Review Sec., 8)
Professor Fred Hoyle, British astronomer, might accept U.S. position if U.K. Department of Scientific and Industrial Research determined not to build new Institute of Theoretical Astronomy which would house an American computer essential to his work. Hoyle complained last year that he had been prevented from using the only American-built computer in Britain that would do his work properly. (Feron, NYT, 3/8/65, 9; Wash. Post, 3/9 /65
Week of March 7: Drop tests at North American Aviation's Downey, Calif, plant demonstrated that substructure of Apollo spacecraft could withstand maximum Apollo water-landing conditions. A series of 18 more drop tests was planned. (M&R, 3/15/65, 7)
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