May 15 1965
From The Space Library
NASA Administrator James E. Webb, speaking to the University of Alabama Alumni in Washington, D.C,: "During the five years ending this month, NASA will have awarded to the University general-purpose grants, project contracts in support of research, and traineeships amounting to over $4.8 million, "This sum has supported 68 research projects and renewals and the training of 30 graduate students, "In the last academic year 63 faculty members, 67 graduate students, 51 undergraduate students, and 25 others were supported through NASA research and predoctoral training programs. "Over the past five years 49 faculty members, 61 graduate students and 73 undergraduate students participated in engineering research sponsored by NASA, "In addition to this support-and in addition to support for the physics, mathematics and chemistry departments-the Marshall Space Flight Center has guaranteed support for the graduate training program at Huntsville to a total of $750,000 in five years. This Huntsville program permitted the establishment two years ago of resident master's degree programs in five disciplines. A sixth was added last year. In two years, 2,729 students have participated." (Text)
"There are 593 objects in earth orbit today," said Maj. Gen. Horace A. Hanes (USAF), Commander of the 9th Aerospace Defense Div., at an Armed Forces Week celebration at Selfridge AFB, Mich. He said these ranged from the six-in.-dia. Vanguard satellite through the 90-ft,-dia. Echo satellite, Hanes said the primary mission of his division was to detect and warn the U.S. of a mass ballistic missile attack: "We use radar stations in Alaska, Greenland, and England for this, But to detect satellites and other objects in earth orbit we use these radars plus a variety of other equipment including special optical cameras eleven feet high that weigh 3,000 pounds." (Pipp, Detroit News, 5/16/65 )
A newspaper article summarizing a report of the International Civil Aviation Organization on the safety record of the non-Communist world's airlines in 1964 said: ", . its more than 100 member airlines, which include U.S. carriers, ended the year with the lowest fatality rate on record, 0.61 deaths to 100 million passenger-miles flown, 22.5 percent below 1963, the best previous year." (CR, 5/19/65, 10592)
Week of May 16: A $300,000 telescope produced through gifts of parts and money was put on display at the Stamford (Conn,) Museum and Nature Center. The 22-in, photo-visual telescope, designed to track even man-made satellites, was the result of a project compared to a "barn raising." A spokesman said that at dedication on June 13, plaques would be distributed to 51 major contributors of equipment and labor, and certificates to 81 other cooperators. (Devlin, NYT, 5/23/65)
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