Sep 13 1966
From The Space Library
U.N. Ambassador Arthur Goldberg, attempting to clear obstacles to early completion of space law treaty, announced two US. compromises to Legal Subcommittee of U.N. Committee on Peaceful Uses of Outer Space meeting in New York: (1) US. would not require that space stations and vehicles be “open at all times” for inspection, but would allow that visits be made on “a basis of reciprocity” with “reasonable advance notice” to host government; (2) US. would not demand submission of comprehensive reports on space exploration to U.N. members and scientific community, but would have reports submitted “to the extent feasible and practicable.” U.S.S.R. demand that nations granting tracking facilities to any space power provide same facilities on identical terms to other space powers was modified by Soviet delegate Platon D. Morozov to include provision that expenses incurred in rendering tracking aid would be reimbursed. ‘‘(Teltsch, NYT, 9/14/66, 32)’’
Rep. George P. Miller (D-Calif.), chairman of House Science and Astronautics Committee, praised NASA’s GEMINI XI mission on the floor of the House: cr. . . the Gemini 11 crew successfully accomplished the first rendezvous and docking in space within one revolution, by far the quickest of any rendezvous attempted to date. It is significant to note at this point in the mission that the . . . flight is following the planned schedule of events closer than any other Gemini flight to date. . . .” ‘‘(CR, 9/13/66, 21495)’’
U.S.S.R. pilot Aleksey Anosov had established new world’s distance record for helicopter with 1,509-km. (938-mi.) flight in MI-1 helicopter from Sumi in the Ukraine to the Orenburg region in the Urals. Previous record of 900 mi. (1,449 km.) had been set by Capt. Chester R. Radcliffe, Jr. (USAF), July 5, 1962. ‘‘(Wash. Post, 9/14/66, B2)’’
September 13-14: First Logistics Management Symposium attended by some 400 industrialists and government officials met at MSFC to discuss logistics support of activities in the free world and in space. In the keynote address, NASA Associate Administrator for Manned Space Flight Dr. George E. Mueller stressed that effective logistics management was essential to the success of NASA’s Apollo program. “For the first time in. a NASA manned space flight program, the greater part of logistics is not being provided by the Department of Defense. . . . “However, the need for increasing the emphasis on logistics management for Apollo is great. . . . “The Apollo Saturn space vehicle involves 20,000 contractors and subcontractors and has more than 900,000 individual parts. The Saturn V first stage holds 56 tank cars of propellants. The second and third stages of Saturn V transported by water during the Apollo program will spend a total of 700 days at sea. Apollo program transportation by all modes will require coordination with nine Government agencies. The launch windows for the Apollo lunar mission are relatively small, malfunctions on the pad must be kept to a minimum while corrective maintenance must be extremely fast and reliable. All of these elements make the Apollo logistics program both complicated and costly. . . .” ‘‘(MSFC Release 66-202; Text)’’
September 13-15: Series of five NASA Nike-Apache sounding rockets was launched from Churchill Research Range in GCA Corp. experiment to compare, by means of Langmuir probe and trimethyl-aluminum (TMA) cloud techniques, electron density profile with wind profile. A NASA aircraft obtained supporting photographs of vapor clouds. All rockets and instrumentation performed satisfactorily; TMA did not eject during second flight in series, but useful data were obtained from Langmuir probe. ‘‘(NASA Rpt. SRL)’’
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