Oct 29 1964
From The Space Library
Nobel Prize in Physics awarded to Dr. Charles H. Townes (MIT) and two Soviet physicists, Aleksandr M. Prokhorov and Nikolai G. Basov, for research in quantum electronics leading to production of oscillators and amplifiers for lasers. Dr. Townes was Chairman of NASA Manned Space Flight Advisory Committee. (NYT, 10/30/64, 1)
Captive flight of X-15 No. 3 was made with Milton O. Thompson as pilot. (NASA X-15 Proj. Off.)
NASA Administrator James E. Webb told Huntsville Industrial Expansion Committee, meeting at NASA Marshall Space Flight Center: "We have given .. . [MSFC] the job of managing the contractors who will assemble, test and launch giant boosters, and much of this work is handled here in Huntsville. "We have placed this management job with the Marshall Center because the management of industrial development contracts involving hundreds of-millions of dollars per year requires the daily support by scientists and engineers intimately familiar with the many-faceted development problems. And we want to keep this arrangement. As this very large program progresses, it will be good business, and in the interests of efficiency and lowered costs, to move part of the contract management functions near our Michoud Assembly Facility at New Orleans or our industrial stage assembly plants in California. "We have done this in the past and we will undoubtedly do more of it in the future. The extent to which we may have to move more of these management functions out of the Huntsville area will directly depend on our ability to improve our record of attracting senior executives from industry to the Huntsville installation. . . ." (Marshall Star, 11/4/64, 4)
Weber Aircraft Co. of Burbank, Calif., demonstrated the astronaut escape system that it had developed for NASA. System was designed to boost astronauts out of their Gemini spacecraft and open escape parachutes in 10 sec. if a spacecraft malfunction should develop. (Macomber, San Diego Union, 10/30/64)
Minuteman II ICBM flight test from Cape Kennedy marked second success in as many launchings. USAF said the advanced missile achieved all test objectives. (AP, Houston Post, 10/30/64)
October 29-30: Conference on New Technology held at NASA Lewis Research Center. Part of NASA's Technology Utilization program, the conference was a means of disseminating new technology developed from aerospace research to other segments of the U.S. economy. (LRC Release 64-95)
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