Nov 4 1970
From The Space Library
Sud-Aviation test pilot Andre Turcat flew Concorde 001, French prototype of Anglo-French supersonic transport to mach 2 (2125 km per hr; 1320 mph) for first time during 90-min, 102nd test flight from Toulouse-Blagnac Aerodrome. Soviet supersonic transport Tu-144 had flown at 2150 km per hr (1336 mph) May 26. (Farnsworth, NYT, 11/5/70, 94)
U.S.S.R.'s Zond VIII spacecraft was flown to Moscow from Bombay, India, where it had been taken by ship after splashdown in Indian Ocean Oct. 27. (Reuters, W Post, 11!5/70, A6)
AP interview of Dr. Charles H. Townes, Univ. of California at Berkeley physicist and Nobel laureate, on possibility of life in outer space was published in Washington Evening Star: "It is clear that we already have found most of the molecules that biologists have postulated are necessary far the beginning of life." Scientists were also finding particles of dust in "interstellar smog" that were similar to earth rocks. ". . we can see in space many of the materials from which planets are made and which life needs to begin." (W Star, 11/ 4/70, A2)
November 4-5: European Space Conference in Brussels discussed European participation in $13-billion, 10-yr U.S. post-Apollo program. At Nov. 4 session, U.K. delegation rejected U.S. proposal to join program, because program's costs and timing were too imprecise and program had not yet been approved by U.S. Congress. French, West German, and Belgian delegations declared they would accept U.S. invitation. At close of Nov. 5 session, Conference President Theo Lefevre, Belgian Minister for Scientific Policy and Planning, announced 12 countries participating had set up committee to examine U.S. proposals with view to accepting it on suitable financial and political terms. Delegation would visit Washington, D.C., at undecided date for further talks. (Reuters, NYT, 11 /6/70, U9)
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