Oct 27 1965
From The Space Library
NASA named an Agena Review Board to try to identify the causes of the failure which prevented the Agena stage from fulfilling its mission in the Gemini VI flight Oct. 25. Board would be headed by co-chairmen Dr. Robert R. Gilruth, Director of NASA Manned Spacecraft Center; and Maj. Gen. O. J. Ritland (USAF) , Deputy Commander for Space, Air Force Systems Command. (NASA Release 65-342)
X-15 No. 3 was flown to 236,900-ft, altitude and top speed of 3,477 mph (mach 5,06) by NASA research pilot John B. McKay to obtain data on the NSL scanner, boundary layer noise, and horizontal stabilizer loads. (NASA X-15 Proj. Off.; X-15 Flight Log)
Service module of Apollo spacecraft 009 was delivered to KSC from North American Aviation's Downey, Calif, plant aboard the Pregnant Guppy aircraft. (KSC Historical Office)
U.S.S.R.'s photographic moon probe, ZOND was 33.4 million miles (52.8 million km,) from earth. Transmission of photos of the moon's hidden side had been resumed according to the flight program, Pictures were of good quality. (Tass, 10/28/65)
Two workmen were killed and three were injured in an explosion and fire in the propellant preparation building at Thiokol Chemical Corp,'s Minuteman missile facility. The accident occurred at Minuteman Plant 78, an Air Force facility operated by Thiokol. An investigation was underway to determine the cause. (AP, NYT, 10/28/65, 43M)
USAF had awarded Radiation Inc, a $1,044,120 increment to an existing contract for modification of automatic tracking telemetry antennas used is space tracking at ETR. (DOD Release 759-65)
Soviet deputy minister of communications I. V. Klokov, commenting for Izvestia on orbiting of the second MOLNIYA I comsat, said: "The orbiting of the second Soviet Comsat `MOLNIYA I' will permit us to verify the feasibility of organizing a communication system envisaging the combined use of several sputniks. This will offer the possibility of a marked increase in the duration of contact to the point of becoming a round-the-clock system. "With the aid of the new sputnik, the first telephone communication sessions have already been conducted; Moscow and Vladivostok have exchanged the first TV programs. These tests have shown that the quality of the radio communications and telecommunications is superior to that found in the experiments with the first Soviet Comsat, MOLNIYA I." (Izvestia, 10/16/65, 3; ATSS-T Trans,)
Aerospace and defense planning concepts could be applied to many of the Nation's major social problems, Dr. Ruben F. Mettler, executive vice president of TRW, Inc, told a luncheon meeting of AIAA in New York, Dr. Mettler listed transportation, medical services, and housing as areas where the systems approach to problems would prove beneficial, He said that he thought the application of aerospace systems concepts had a bright and profitable future in civilian endeavors. (NYT, 10/27/65, 74M)
Vice Adm. Hyman G. Rickover (USN), in a London lecture sponsored by the British Association for the Advancement of Science, warned against uncontrolled exploitation of science that "may become a Frankenstein monster, destroying its creator," man, He listed misuses of new technology, including one that may be irreparable: "We may be damaging the atmosphere permanently by changing its chemical composition." (UPI, NYT, 10/28/65, 39)
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