Oct 11 1967
From The Space Library
NASA test pilots Fitzhugh Fulton and Donald L. Mallick flew XB-70 No. 1 to 58,000-ft altitude and 1,581 mph (mach 2.43) in flight at Edwards AFB. Purpose of test was to check lateral-directional stability, control, and handling qualities at mach 2.35 and 55,000 f t; inlet unstart at mach 2.4 and 57,500 ft; variable nose ramp functional test at mach 1.6 and 38,000 ft, and at mach 1.4 and 32,000 ft. Flight was successful. (XB-70 Proj Off)
U.S.S.R. successfully launched Cosmos CLXXXI into orbit with 863-km (536-mi) apogee, 668-km (415-mi) perigee, 101.1-min period, and 99.16° inclination. Satellite reentered Oct. 18. (GSFC SSR, 10/31/67)
USAF launched unidentified satellite from Vandenberg AFB employing a Thor-Burner II booster. (UPI, P EB, 10/11/67,2; Pres Rep 1967)
NASA announced organizational changes in preparation for changes that would occur when Deputy Administrator Dr. Robert C. Seamans, Jr., left NASA Jan. 1 : (1) General Counsel Paul G. Dembling and Executive Secretary John R. Biggs would report directly to NASA Administrator James E. Webb; (2) Assistant General Counsel for Procurement Matters S. Neil Hosenball would fill new post of Deputy General Counsel; and (3) OMSF Secretariat representative Frank J. Magliato would serve as Special Assistant to the Administrator and direct organization of a Headquarters Communications Center. (NASA Release 67-263)
Executive Order 11374, abolishing Missile Sites Labor Commission, and transferring its functions and responsibilities to Federal Mediation and Conciliation Service, was signed by President. (PD, 10/16/67,1430-1)
Sen. Henry M. Jackson (D-Wash.) expressed concern about US. defense policy in speech to the Hoover Institution on War, Revolution, and Peace meeting at Stanford Univ. He cited three specific ideas with which he disagreed: (1) exaggerated picture of US. as catalyst in Soviet desire to "possess a first-rate military establishment," (2) theory that military technology had reached a plateau and stabilized, and (3) seeming trend toward nuclear parity. Some scientists and defense planners, he said, had "a mirror image interpretation of Moscow's decisions . . . seeing them as reflex actions" and believed that if U.S. did not act U.S.S.R. would not act. He also argued, "Ordinary economic technology is always finding better ways to do things and there is no reason to suppose that military technology will cease in this effort." Sen. Jackson believed that "international peace and security depend not on a parity of power but on a preponderance of power in the peacekeepers over the peace-upsetters. Our aim is not . . . an unlimited accumulation of weapons . . . [but] to create and maintain . . . a relationship of forces favorable to the deterrent of adventurism and aggression." (Text)
"The ceremonies in Washington, Moscow and London putting the space treaty into effect mark not only the first major East-West agreement since the nuclear test ban treaty of 1963 but a potential starting point for an even more momentous accord," New York Times commented on space law treaty which went into effect Oct. 10. It added that "recent statements by the Soviet Union's leading space scientist, Professor Leonid Sedov, indicate that the Russians too may be coming around to the conclusion that the costs of going it alone to the moon and beyond outweigh the dimming propaganda magic." (NYT, 10/11/67)
Jonathan Spivak in Wall Street Journal commented on congressional cuts in NASA's FY 1968 budget: "Plans to launch unmanned satellites to Mars or Venus in 1971 and 1973 and conduct extended exploration of the moon by astronauts face probable abandonment because of a lack of funds. There will also be sharp curtailment of proposals for long-duration manned flights in orbit about the earth to enhance the nation's space technology and exploit practical and scientific applications of space. Thus, say space officials, the present outlook is that only a limited national space program will continue in the 1970s after the lunar landing. (Spivak, WSJ, 10/11/67, 24)
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