Oct 15 1966
From The Space Library
President Johnson signed into law H.R. 15963 creating Cabinet level Department of Transportation. (Pres. Doc., 10/24/66, 1498)
Close of IAF Congress was dramatized when Spain launched her first sounding rocket-Carabela & from Arencillo base, near Huelva. British-built rocket, which cost approximately $1,700, carried 12-lb. instrumented payload to 81-km. (50-mi.) altitude and then impacted 40 mi. downrange in the Atlantic. Two NASA officials-William Hausman, Assistant Administrator for International Affairs, and Clotaire Wood, NASA European Representative-observed the launch, first of six in a long-range program to study meteorology. (Wilford, NYT, 10/16/66, 78)
Communist sources speculated that U.S.S.R. would launch "a large satellite carrying several men . . . just before the Nov. 7 anniversary of the Bolshevik Revolution," and another, the world's largest satellite and carrying eight men, by the end of 1966, AP reported. (AP, NYT, 10/16/66,28)
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