May 5 1965
From The Space Library
Soviet Cosmonaut Aleksei Leonov, first man to walk in space, had received 1/230th of the permissible radiation dose, proving that space travel is radiation -safe, Tass announced. (Renters, NYT, 5/6/65, 2)
NASA Assistant Deputy Administrator Dr. George L. Simpson, Jr, was named Chancellor of the University System of Georgia and would assume the duties of the new post July 15, Simpson, who had joined NASA in 1962 as Assistant Administrator of Public Affairs, later became Assistant Administrator for Technology Utilization and Policy Planning, In July 1964 he assumed the additional duties of Assistant Deputy Administrator. A native of North Carolina, he had been a professor at the Univ. of North Carolina and a planner of the Research Triangle, cooperative endeavor of the Univ. of North Carolina, Duke Univ., and North Carolina State College. (AP, Wash, Eve. Star, 5/5/65)
USAF Chief of Staff General John P. McConnell, speaking at a meeting of the National Press Club in Washington, D.C., said: ", . As airmen, all of us in the Air Force look at space with real concern, Will it someday become an area of military operation? If so, what will be the U.S. posture? In military language, what is our readiness? ... "Space exploration is the responsibility of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration... The act which created the National Aeronautics and Space Administration gave NASA broad responsibilities for meeting many of the broad needs of the nation. It also stated that the Department of Defense should be responsible for and direct those space activities peculiar to or primarily associated with the development of weapon systems, military operations or the defense of the United States, "So we have both NASA and Air Force assigned specific responsibilities. We have the basis of a partnership. And a partnership it is in carrying out the national program as recommended by the President and authorized and funded by Congress. The intent of Congress is very clear. The members wanted the broad space capabilities of the nation to be built up as rapidly as possible without unnecessary duplication of effort or of waste. This we are attempting to do, and while I would not ordinarily try to speak for Jim Webb, the NASA Administrator, I think I can speak for him today on this subject, in saying, that it is a very well understood mutual objective between the Air Force and NASA," Asked his opinion about spending of $20 billion to reach the moon, McConnell said: "I think it is necessary for us to get everything we can out of space. And I think we should get it as rapidly as we can at as reasonable cost as we can. But you can't get it rapidly and at the same time cheaply ... going to the moon is just the end product of what we are getting out of it, If we were just going to the moon, I wouldn't think it would be worth 20 billion dollars to go to the moon, But I don't hesitate to say that all of the other things which we have to do, the preliminaries, and the things that we're going to learn in the process of achieving that goal is well worth the expenditure of whatever money is required to attain the knowledge which we will attain as a result of this project." (Text)
Boeing Co. unveiled to the public a mockup of its Molab (Mobile Laboratory ), a six-wheeled vehicle being studied by NASA for use in manned exploration of the moon. (AP, Tulsa Daily World, 5/6/65)
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