Oct 9 1965
From The Space Library
Two-stage Saphir rocket successfully fired by France from Hammaguir Range, Algeria, reached 720-mi. altitude, French Armed Forces Minister announced. Saphir, combined with a third stage already tested successfully, would be used to orbit the first French satellite toward the end of November 1965. (Reuters, Wash, Post, 10/12/65, A3)
Gemini VII spacecraft, destined for the long-duration 14-day mission, arrived at KSC from the McDonnell Aircraft Corp, factory in St, Louis. The spacecraft was moved to the Pyrotechnic Installation Building for receiving inspection and fuel cell installation. (KSC Historical Office)
Crown Prince Harald of Norway toured NASA Manned Spacecraft Center. (MSC Roundup, 10/15/65, 8)
Pravda announced completion of flight of LUNA VII: "The automatic station Luna VII reached the lunar surface on October 8 at 1:08 p.m. Moscow time in the region of the Sea of Storms west of the crater of Kepler. After the correction made on October 5, during the lunar approach, most of the operations were conducted that were necessary for accomplishing a soft landing. Certain operations were not conducted in conformity with the program and require further development... During the flight of the Luna 7 spacecraft, much practical material was collected for further studies." (Pravda, 10/9/65, ATSS-T Trans.)
Soviet Professor V. Ivanchenko, writing in Izvestia, implied that LUNA VII spacecraft had crashed against the moon's surface because its braking rockets had failed to fire in time. He described the difficulties of activating the rockets at "precisely" the right moment to cut the spacecraft's speed of almost two mps to zero. Ivanchenko said only the trial-and-error system would give a successful result and predicted many more Soviet launchings. (Wash, Post, 10/10/65, A25)
British Astronomer Professor Fred Hoyle, long-time adherent to the steady-state universe theory, wrote in Nature that he now believed that the universe or parts of the universe is in a state of flux, expanding for billions of years, then contracting to a dense ball of matter, and expanding again, In view of recent observations, especially those of a quasi-stellar radio source which indicated that the universe had been much denser, "the steady-state theory is out," he said. (Malkin, Sun-News, 10/11/65)
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