Oct 23 1969
From The Space Library
Apollo 12 countdown demonstration test (CDDT) began at KSC in preparation for launch to moon Nov. 14. (UPI, NYT, 10/25/69)
In Kinshasa, Republic of Congo, Apollo 11 astronauts were awarded National Order of the Leopard, Congo's highest decoration, by President Joseph D. Mobutu for "setting an example to all mankind." (C Trib, 10/24/69)
Cosmonauts Georgy T. Beregovoy and Konstantin P. Feoktistov told press conference at MSC they had declined invitation to visit Cape Kennedy because they could not reciprocate and invite U.S. astronauts to Soviet launch facilities. (C Trib, 10/24/69)
Dr. George E. Mueller, NASA Associate Administrator for Manned Space Flight, addressed 25th Annual General Meeting of IATA in Amsterdam, Netherlands. "Within the next ten years we can expect the full effect of the space age to be felt. New insights into our complex environment will spur the development of new industries, new products and the new jobs which we need to gainfully employ our expanding population." Air transportation would be one of first areas "dramatically affected" by space experience. "An inertial guidance system fundamentally the same as that which carried Apollo 11 to the moon is now being installed in the Boeing 747. Data concerning the flammability of nonmetallic materials, accumulated for use in the Apollo Modules, is being utilized for interior fittings. . . ." Other space-to-aviation transfers included composite materials to withstand stresses and temperatures not previously encountered, optical tooling for large structures, welding with new materials and by new processes in new aircraft, and general-purpose onboard digital computers. "The use of solid-state large-scale integrated circuits for multiplexing and self-checking circuits will eliminate most cabling and much maintenance." Desired characteristics of space shuttle, which could be operational by 1976, would anticipate those of next generation of air transports, possibly, global transport "so that no place on earth would be more than an hour from any other." (Text)
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