Oct 7 1966
From The Space Library
NASA's Eighth Annual Honor Awards Ceremony was held in Washington, D.C. NASA Administrator James E. Webb accepted from Mr. and Mrs. C. Thomas Clagett, Jr., for placement at KSC a replica of the bronze Kennedy bust sculpted by Felix de Weldon for the John F. Kennedy Memorial Library; and from the American Society of Civil Engineers, the 1966 Outstanding Civil Engineering Achievement Award for KSC's Launch Complex 39. Mr. Webb presented NASA's Distinguished Public Service Medal to Dr. Lloyd V. Berkner, chairman, Graduate Research Center of the Southwest's Board of Trustees, who emphasized the need for careful and immediate post-Apollo planning in his keynote address : "We now have a powerful machinery for the command of space trained specialists, mighty rockets, a technological dexterity that is unsurpassed. But to keep this capability, we must have new strategic objectives. And that there are many worthwhile and compelling objectives there can be no doubt. . . . "I would assert that it is now imperative that more advanced space strategies be adopted-and quickly-if our space program is to remain efficient and effective. And I would suggest that whatever this further strategy, it employ and advance our full capability in science, men, mechanisms, and skill. . . ." Recipients of Distinguished Service Medal: Dr. Hugh L. Dryden, former Deputy Administrator (posthumously); Dr. T. Keith Glennan, first NASA Administrator; and Gen. Bernard A. Schriever (USAF, Ret.), former AFSC Commander. Recipients of Exceptional Scientific Achievement Medal: Richard F. Arenstorf, MSFC; Helmut J. Horn, MSFC; Norman F. Ness, GSFC; and George F. Pezdirtz, LaRC . Outstanding Leadership Medal: John F. Clark, GSFC; Edgar M. Cortright, Hq.; Robert L. Krieger, Wallops; George J. Vecchietti, Hq.; Harold B. Finger, Hq.; Harry H. Gorman, MSFC; Edmund F. O'Connor, MSFC; Eberhard F. M. Rees, MSFC; and Herman K. Weidner, MSFC. Exceptional Service Medal: M. Helen Davies, ARC; Herbert A. Wilson, LaRC; Robert A. Rushworth, USAF; Roll D. Ginter, Hq.; David S. Gabriel, LRC; Edmund R. Jonash, LRC; J. Cary Nettles, LRC; Wilfred E. Scull, GSFC; Harry Press, GSFC; Leland F. Belew, MSFC; Lee B. James, MSFC; William G. Johnson, MSFC; and Peter A. Minderman, KSC. Group Achievement Award: JPL; LRC; LaRC (2); and Hq. Space Nuclear Propulsion Office. Public Service Award: Grant L. Hansen, General Dynamics Corp. (Program; Text AF/SD, 1/67/54-5)
NASA announced selection of Bendix Field Engineering Co. to provide maintenance and operations support of the Deep Space Network under a three-year, $37-million, cost-plus-award-fee contract to be managed by JPL. (NASA Release 66-268)
Willson H. Hunter, Assistant to the Director of LRC, had been appointed NASA's Senior Scientific Representative to Australia, replacing Ray W. Hooker, who had been named Special Assistant for Industrial Affairs at WRC. (NASA Release 66-267; LRC Release 66-64)
General Dynamics Corp. received eight-month, $275,000 MSFC contract to investigate concepts of large space structures having possible post Apollo use. Three structures which could fly as Apollo Applications (AA) payloads on Saturn launch vehicles would be selected, evaluated, and validated for immediate useful application in space. (MSFC Release 66-245)
USAF awarded Univ. of Colorado a 15-mo., $300,000 research contract to "conduct independent investigations into unidentified flying object (Ufo) reports." Study would be headed by Dr. Edward U. Condon, a professor of physics at the university. (DOD Release 847-66)
Arthur G. Wimer, Jr., assistant deputy chief of staff for science and technology in the Air Research and Development Command, was named chief scientist for AFSC, replacing Dr. Bernhard H. Goethert who had resigned to become director of Univ. of Tennessee Space Institute. (AFSC Release 206.66)
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