Oct 22 1961
From The Space Library
NASA announced that Dr. Hiden T. Cox, executive director of the American Institute of Biological Sciences, would become Assistant Administrator for Public Affairs, and "charged with developing NASA policies to insure that the character, the intent, and the results of America's space effort are correctly and adequately interpreted to the people of this country and the world." Assistant Secretary of State for International Organization Affairs, Harlan Cleveland, outlined in a speech at St. Louis University the seven-point program that the United States will propose to the United Nations General Assembly for guaranteeing peace and world cooperation in space: (1) Explicit confirmation that the U.N. Charter applies to the limits of space exploration; (2) a declaration that space and heavenly bodies are not subject to claim of national sovereignty; (3) an international system for registering of all objects launched into space; (4) a specialized space unit in the United Nations Secretariat; (5) a world weather watch using satellites; (6) a cooperative search for ways toward weather modification; and (7) a global system of communications to link the world by telegraph, telephone, radio, and television.
National Science Foundation announced the establishment of a science resources planning office to study U.S. long-range scientific needs, to be headed by NSF Associate Director for Planning, Richard H. Bolt.
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