October 1966
From The Space Library
NASA published Vacuum Technology and Space Simulation (SP-105) , a comprehensive manual available to public through the Superintendent of Documents, GPO. (NASA Release 66-279)
FAA cautioned airline executives during briefing in Washington, D.C., not to let desire for a "fly-off competition keep them from making as clear cut a first choice as possible for the supersonic transport. If they did not, they might get aircraft they did not want or Congressional critics might use indecisiveness to stall or kill program. Possibility that prototypes of both the Boeing and Lockheed airframe designs would be built was virtually ruled out. (Av. Wk., 10/31/66, 25)
During October: Secretary of the Air Force Dr. Harold Brown summarized USAF's position on its future in space in an interview with Armed Forces Management: "It is not a matter of desiring to conduct military campaigns in space but rather to preclude any aggressor from using space as an area of operations for launching attacks against the US. . . . "We should not be doing things just to be doing them. Rather, they must have direct relation to establishing military needs. "Space is not a mission but a place to perform a mission. When a mission can be performed from space, the Air Force will perform it from there. . . ." (Armed Forces Management, 10/66, 69)
NASA made available a list of abstracts of NASA-owned inventions for foreign licensing through the Assistant General Counsel for Patent Matters, NASA Hq. (NASA Release 66-266)
AFSC awarded 12-mo. study contracts totaling $900,000 to Lockheed-California Co., North American Aviation, Inc., and McDonnell Aircraft Corp. to develop a high-altitude, hypersonic Scramjet-powered cruise vehicle with potential military applications. (AFSC Release 188.66)
NASA Deputy Administrator Dr. Robert C. Seamans, Jr., said in Interavia that in addition to possible "definite and direct" economic and technological benefits, the "greatest impact the continuing exploration of space will have upon man will be upon his own philosophy: that is, his view of himself in relation to the universe as he imagines it." (Interavia, 10/66, 1479)
USAF School of Aerospace Medicine had completed 46-day simulated spaceflight in which bite-size food diet was tested, Technology Week reported. Four airmen, divided into two teams, spent several days at ground-level conditions, then entered two high-altitude chambers at simulated 27,000 ft. Atmosphere was 70% oxygen, 30% hydrogen for one team; 70% oxygen, 30% nitrogen for second. Final sixteen days were spent at ground level. Results had not been released. (Tech. Wk., 10/31/66,4)
“Surveyor: Candid Camera on the Moon” article appears in National Geographic Magazine
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