May 27 1966
From The Space Library
Space News for this day. (2MB PDF)
Dr. Walter A. Radius, career Foreign Service officer who had been on detail to NASA from State Dept. since 1963, was appointed special assistant to NASA Assistant Administrator for Policy Analysis, Breene M. Kerr. Dr. Radius would assume new duties beginning June 6. (NASA Release 66-129; PIO)
NASA selected Lockheed Missiles and Space Co. and Martin Co. for negotiations of parallel one-year $1-million fixed-price study contracts on integration of experiments and experiments support equipment in space vehicles and spacecraft for manned Apollo Applications (AA) missions. Companies would define experiment integration work (payload integration in Apollo lunar module, Saturn launch vehicle instrument unit, and S-IVB stages of Saturn I-B and Saturn V vehicles. Contracts would be managed by MSFC. (NASA Release 66-137)
Breene M. Kerr, NASA Assistant Administrator for Policy Analysis, announced appointment of Dr. Irwin P. Halpern as Director, Policy Analysis Staff, Office of the Assistant Administrator for Policy Analysis. Dr. Halpern, a CIA specialist on Soviet and Chinese Communist political and military affairs and doctrine, would assume new duties beginning June 5. (NASA Release 66-130)
New F-4J Phantom jet, developed by McDonnell Aircraft Corp. for carrier use by USN and USMC, made its first public flight at Lambert-St. Louis Municipal Airport. Aircraft had higher maximum speed, greater range, higher combat ceiling, shorter takeoff distance, and greater combat capabilities than other Phantom models. (McDonnell Release)
Memorandum of understanding for cooperative meteorological project called “Eole” was signed by NASA and French Centre Nationale d’Etudes Spatiales (CNES). To gather data on atmospheric circulation, Eole project would use network of constant level balloons-which would drift with the wind and act as tracers of air masses-and an earth orbiting satellite-which would record pressure and temperature data telemetered from balloons for later transmission to ground stations. CNES would be responsible for “development and launching of the balloons and their payloads and for the design, fabrication and testing of the proposed satellite. NASA would provide Scout rocket, handle launching, and train personnel. (NASA Release 66-156)
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