May 27 1965
From The Space Library
All test phases of the Project Fire II reentry heating experiment conducted at Cape Kennedy May 22 were satisfactory, NASA announced. Preliminary examination of telemetry data indicated that heating information was received throughout reentry and that all test sequences occurred as scheduled. (NASA Release 65-179)
USAF launched Atlas-Agena D from WTR with unidentified satellite payload. (U.S. Aeron, & Space Act, 1965, 143)
Army Lockheed XH-51A, fastest helicopter in the world, demonstrated its rigid rotor system and auxiliary jet engine in a successful test flight. It had a top speed of 272 mph, Without thrust from the engine, the XH-51A could be operated as a helicopter. (Wash. Post, 5/27/65, A7)
An explosion two minutes after launch ruined a USAF attempt to send a plastic replica of an astronaut's body into space aboard an Atlas missile from Vandenberg AFB. The dummy was instrumented to measure space radiation at various depths of the body, Cause of the explosion was not immediately determined. (AP, Wash, Post, 5/29/65)
First experimental color television transmissions through the Soviet comsat MOLNIYA I were reported by Tass. Programs were transmitted continuously for more than nine hours from the Moscow television center via MOLNIYA I to an unidentified ground station about 1,000 mi, from Moscow and by land lines back to the Soviet capital, Tass said the tests included color television systems developed in the U.S. France, and the Soviet Union. The U.S.S.R. and France had recently concluded an agreement to cooperate in development of a joint system. (NYT, 5/28/65, 2)
Dr. Kurt Waldheim, Austrian U.N. delegate, was unanimously elected to head the U.N. Outer Space Committee. (NYT, 5/28/65)
It was reported that President Johnson was disappointed that the two-man Gemini-Titan 4 spacecraft scheduled for June 3 launching, had no cameras aboard for simultaneous TV transmission of the space walk. The President had hoped that at completion of the four-day flight by Astronauts McDivitt and White, the U.S. would have pictures similar to those released by the Soviet Union after VOSKHOD II flight, TV cameras had been sacrificed for experimental instruments. (Humphrey, Phil. Eve, Bull., 5/27/65)
"If Major Edward H. White leaves his space capsule during next Thursday's Gemini IV flight, it will only be a 'space spectacular' stunt," said Rep. George P. Miller (D-Calif,) during a news conference in San Francisco. Rep. Miller, chairman of the House Committee on Science and Astronautics, had made the same comment at the time of a similar feat by the Soviet Union. (NYT, 5/28/65)
NASA would hire 330 additional summer employees, ages 16 through 21, in support of the Youth Opportunity Campaign announced by President Johnson May 23, NASA disclosed. Instructions had been sent to 11 NASA field centers directing them to begin recruiting for work to begin as early in June as possible. (NASA Release 65-177)
A working model of Electro-Optical Systems, Inc,'s new 100-lb, 15-in,- dia. ion engine, using accelerated ions to gain thrust, was presented to Smithsonian Institution in Washington, D.C, for display in the Arts and Industries building. (Wash. Post, 5/27/65, F3)
May 27-29: Forty educators from Alabama, Arkansas, Louisiana, Mississippi, Missouri, and Tennessee attended a NASA-Univ. of Alabama Educational Symposium whose prime purpose was to determine the impact upon the curriculum of secondary schools of new knowledge and developments in science, sociology, and human relations created by NASA MSFC activities. Symposium and workshop were conducted by the University under a MSFC contract. ( MSFC Release 65-129)
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