Sep 19 1967
From The Space Library
Secretary of Defense Robert S. McNamara's decision to go ahead with "thin" Nike-X antiballistic missile (ABM) system [see Sept. 18] was praised by Sen. Clinton P. Anderson (D-N.Mex.) , Chairman of Senate Committee on Aeronautical and Space Sciences, on floor of Senate: "I indicate my support of this decision [and] under present world circumstances, we have no choice but to go ahead with [ABM] system." (CRY 9/19/67, S13207-9)
Orbiting Geophysical Observatory (OGO) satellites, Ogo I , II, III, and IV, transmitted data simultaneously for the first time. Launching dates for four satellites had been : Ogo I, Sept. 4,1964; Ogo II, Oct. 14,1965; Ogo III, June 6, 1966; and Ogo IV, July 28, 1967. (NASA Release 67-252)
USAF launched unidentified satellite from WTR using Titan III-B booster; satellite reentered Sept. 30. (Pres Rep 1967)
Fabrication of five S-IIs (Saturn V's 2nd stage) would be accomplished under a contract modification awarded by NASA to North American Aviation, Inc. Purchase of the five stages would complete the S-II requirement for the 15 Saturn V launch vehicles currently approved for development as a part of the Apollo program. The first of the stages would be delivered to NASA in Feb. 1969. The Marshall Space Flight Center, Huntsville, Ala., managed the Saturn program. (NASA Release 67-244)
The three PEGASUS spacecraft launched by NASA in 1965 had far exceeded the most optimistic expectations and were still operating as the end of a one-year lifetime extension drew near. The spacecraft were launched aboard the last three Saturn I launch vehicles on Feb. 16, May 25, and July 30, 1965. They had completed their assigned tasks-to measure the meteoroid environment of near-earth space-and had telemetered back to earth much information on other subjects of interest to space scientists. Scientific results of Project PEGASUS had been covered in an interim report prepared by MSFC's Space Sciences Laboratory. (MSFC Release 67-192)
Examples of air, sea, and space technology "working together as partners for the better understanding of our total environment" were cited by Dr. Robert C. Seamans, Jr., NASA Deputy Administrator, in a speech to the 2nd International Buoy Technology Symposium, Marine Technology Society, Washington, D.C. The Interrogation, Recording and Location System (IRLS) , developed by Goddard Space Flight Center, would demonstrate the use of a satellite to locate and determine the position of sensors, receive data from the sensor, record that data on the Spacecraft, and later relay the data to ground stations. Possible terrestrial sensors are meteorological stations or buoys, oceanographic buoys, gauges for measuring the strains in the earth's crust, drifting balloons, ice islands, or any of a wide variety of data platforms located on the surface of the earth or in its atmosphere. Seamans said, "It is quite easy to conceive how such a system could begin to solve many of the problems hindering world-wide fixed or free buoy systems for the study of currents and ocean-depth profile data." He also noted that "photographs and images returned by such satellites as Nimbus, TIROS, and Gemini are being analyzed to assess their oceanographic value." (Text)
Three Lewis Research Center engineers received "I-R 100" awards at National Industrial Research Week ceremonies in New York City. The "I-R 100" awards were sponsored by Industrial Research Magazine and presented in observance of National Industrial Research Week. LeRC recipients William D. Klopp, Peter L. Raffo, and Walter R. Witzke were cited for the development of tungsten RHC, the highest strength metal known at temperatures above 3,500°F. The alloy would have eight times the tensile strength of pure tungsten at the same temperature with no sacrifice in ductility at low temperatures. At temperatures below 250°F, pure tungsten would be very brittle and alloying it to increase strength usually made it more brittle. (LeRC Release 67-60)
Addressing the House on means for a terminal-phase missile interception system, Rep. William R. Anderson (D-Tenn.) called for a sea-based antiballistic missile intercept system (SABMIS) . Pointing to the popular estimate that Red China would have a ballistic missile delivery capability in the early 1970s, the Congressman stated: ". . . deployment of a SABMIS unit would place in the seas close to an adversary's homeland and across his `launch trajectory window,' a mobile, partly submerged screen of antimissile forces." (CR, 9/19/67, H12137)
Mayor Henry Maier of Milwaukee, addressing a conference of UPI editors and publishers in San Francisco, said: "The central city cannot be saved without a reallocation of our national resources to spend as much to build decent cities for man on earth as we spend on sending a man to the moon." (CTNS, C Trib, 9/19/67)
U.S.S.R. launched Cosmos CLXXVIII into orbit with 310-km (193-mi) apogee, 137-km (85-mi) perigee, 88.6-min period, and 50° inclination. Satellite, announced as part of a program of space research, reentered on same day it was launched. (GSFC SSR, 9/30/67)
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