Oct 24 1966
From The Space Library
NASA Director of Program Review William A. Fleming reiterated NASA hopes of landing a man on the moon by mid-1968 at IEEE conference in Milwaukee. Fleming said plans for post-Apollo space activity had not been completed but might include further exploration of moon, possibly with a roving vehicle; drilling to sample the subsurface of the lurain; or establishing manned space stations. Manned space flight to Mars was still at least 20 yrs. away, he said. (Milwaukee Jour, 10/25/66)
Miniature data recording system that could be strapped to pilot's leg to record physiological information during aircraft flights in which missiles were fired was being developed at Naval Missile Center, Point Mugu, Calif. NMC electronic engineer and inventor of device Clifford Phipps said: "In testing the whole weapons system, it is important to know how the man reacts, too." (PMR Release 1411-66)
Fred W. Friendly, former president of CBS News and current television adviser to Ford Foundation, said at National Assn. of Educational Broadcasters convention in Kansas City that the nonprofit comsat proposed by the Foundation to FCC Aug. 1 would provide a "second service appealing to excellence." He said educational broadcasting was now inefficient because it lacked "the interconnections to bring events to people as they hap en." (AP, NYT, 10/20/66, 78)
ComSatCorp proposed to FCC a reduced, flat rate for transatlantic TV transmissions, effective with commercial operation of new Atlantic comsat in late 1966. Proposed rate for one-way, black-and-white transmission: $1,000 for first 10 min. and $30 each additional minute per half channel. Current rates varied from $1,800 for first 10 min. and $32 each additional minute during non-peak hours, to $3,000 for first 10 min. and $48 each additional minute during peak hours. (ComSatCorp Release)
Roll D. Ginter, NASA Centaur Program Manager, became Director of OART's newly established Space Flight Programs Div. He would be responsible for mission planning, management, and coordination of technology space flight projects and experiments within OART. (NASA Release 66-276)
Former Astronaut John H. Glenn, Jr., was appointed chairman of the board of Royal Crown Cola International, Ltd. (AP, Wash. Post, 10/25/66, C8)
Dr. Ivan L. Bennett, Jr., Deputy Director of White House's Office of Science and Technology, warned in speech at seminar on Research in the Service of Man in Oklahoma City that unless scientists "educated" the President and "other intelligent, concerned laymen" about the applicability of their work, their fields of research would suffer. Science, he said, could no longer hope to exist "through some mystique, without constraints or scrutiny in terms of material goals, and isolated from the competition for allocation of resources which are finite." (Sullivan, NYT, 10/25/66, 78M)
USAF was awarding Thiokol Chemical Corp. $1,075,507 contract for design, fabrication, and testing of thrust vector control system for 156-in. solid rocket motor. (DOD Release 897-66)
Proposed further reduction in NASA FY 1967 appropriation because of Vietnam war would amount to "national disaster," Ira C. Eaker wrote in San Antonio Express: "Such desertion of our present space program would give the Soviets an advantage they are now striving mightily to achieve. The U.S.S.R. is now spending about twice what the US. is spending for space research." (Eaker, San Antonio Express, 10/24/66)
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