Sep 10 1969
From The Space Library
Nike-Apache sounding rocket launched by NASA from Wallops Station carried Univ. of Illinois and GCA Corp. payload to 127.4-mi (205-km) altitude to measure electron density, collision frequency, and temperature in lower ionosphere on quarterly world day. Payload included dual-frequency propagation experiment. Rocket altitude was nominal but range was only one-fourth that predicted. Instrument performance was excellent and good data were expected from all experiments. (NASA Rpt SRL)
Paul G. Dembling, NASA General Counsel since January 1967, became NASA Deputy Associate Administrator. Dembling, who had joined NACA in 1945, had been principal drafter of bill which became National Aeronautics and Space Act of 1958 and had received NASA Distinguished Service Medal in 1968 for contributions to development of legal, framework of U.S. aeronautical and space activities. (NASA Release 69-131)
Study of lunar samples was "bringing to light as many mysteries as it unravels," New York Times editorial said. Theorists were cautious, with evidence from one small area, Tranquility Base. "It is likely that the picture will become still more complex when a representative collection of samples becomes available from ten, twenty or thirty areas spread over the entire lunar surface. But even the limitations of the present data suggest strongly that the moon is very different from earth, and therefore has much to teach human science about the origin and evolution of the solar system. The case for intensive scientific study of the moon-conducted in part by geologists and other scientists sent there for on-the-spot investigation-is strong." (NYT, 9/10/69, 40)
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