Sep 21 1965
From The Space Library
In advance excerpts of his book, Waging Peace, 1956-1961, President Dwight D. Eisenhower related his "reactions to Sputnik and the Gaither Report" in October and November 1957, President Eisenhower reviewed a meeting on October 8, 1957, with his principal military and scientific advisers. The late Deputy Secretary of Defense Donald A. Quarles reported: "There is no doubt that the Army Redstone could have orbited a satellite a year or more earlier..." Quarles reviewed the reasons for the separation of the IGY Vanguard satellite from the ballistic missile programs, saying: "The Russians have done us a good turn, unintentionally, in establishing the concept of international space," a principle confirmed by the orbiting of Sputnik over the air space of country after country, "Late that same morning," President Eisenhower wrote, "I directed Secretary of Defense Charles Wilson to have the Army prepare its Redstone at once as a backup for the Navy Vanguard." Of SPUTNIK II which orbited "Laika" on November 3, 1957, President Eisenhower said it did not arouse American public opinion because people "seemed to resent the sending a dog to certain death-a resentment that the Soviet propagandists tried to assuage a few days later by announcing that they had put poison in the last of Laika's rations... "The public, however, became bewildered and upset when word got out that a far from optimistic secret report had been made to me in the National Security Council . . . called The Gaither Report. "This was a period of anxiety, Sputnik had revealed the psychological vulnerability of our people. The Communists were steadily fomenting trouble and rattling sabers; our economy was sputtering somewhat, and the ceaseless and usually healthy self-criticism in which we of the United States indulge had brought a measure of self-doubt. Added to this was the failure of our first satellite launching attempt [[[Vanguard Program|Vanguard]]] in the full glare of publicity and the alleged missile 'gaps' which political observers claimed they had detected... "The Soviet satellites," President Eisenhower said, "were a genuine technological triumph, and this was exceeded by their propaganda value. To uninformed persons in the world, Soviet success in one area led to the belief that Soviet communism was surging ahead in all types of activity." ( Wash, Post, 9/21/65, Al, A19)
Computer guidance system, Mod 1, that had piloted the Nation's first Atlas ICBM, was presented to the Smithsonian Institution by USAF at a ceremony in the Institution's Museum of History and Technology. (Phil, Inq, 9/20/65, 23)
NASA announced it would not extend the contract for supply of liquid hydrogen with Union Carbide Corp, Needs for liquid hydrogen on the West Coast would be met by continuing the contracts with Linde and with Air Products and Chemicals, Inc. (NASA Release 65-300)
American Broadcasting Co, requested permission from FCC to own and operate a communications satellite system linking an estimated 200 affiliated television stations. The proposed $215-million system would use a synchronous orbit satellite similar to EARLY BIRD I. ABC'S request challenged the right of ComSatCorp to be sole operator of U.S.-launched commercial communications satellites. (ABC Release)
Rep. William S. Moorhead (D-Pa.) spoke on the floor of the House on the problem of collecting and using information for decision-making in government and industry: "Experts say that the human mind has difficulty in considering more than 10 or 20 factors at the same time in making decisions. Yet, the unsolved problems of our society may require thousands or hundreds of thousands of factors or subfactors to be considered. Industry has learned to simulate mathematically a given environment, By varying the input assumptions or by varying subdecisions the decision maker can be given rational basis on which to make alternative decisions." (CR, 9/21/65, 23755)
Statement by President Johnson at a meeting with representatives of larger research universities: "Creative research through free inquiry is the working way to new greatness in our society. It can open roads to "-man's mastery of his environment, "-sufficient food, water, and energy to sustain the massed population that is making ours a crowded planet, "-the building of corridors linking the earth to the stars, "-ultimate victory over the tragedy of mental and physical afflictions, and "-progress in helping man live in peace with his neighbor." (Pres. Doc, 9/27/65, 294)
Charles R. Able, group vice president, Missile and Space Systems, Douglas Aircraft Co, defined for the National Space Club in Washington, D.C., the reasons the U.S. must have an on-going space program. He concluded: "The most important single factor in deciding what space programs we will implement in the future is going to be, simply, how well we perform in the programs now going and those just getting started. "The extent to which this Nation will be willing to commit itself to new ventures in space in the years ahead depends entirely on how well we stay on schedule and within the budget set for us. "The most important task we have in preparing for the future is to do a good job now." (Text, CR, 9/22/65, A5370-71)
Astronauts Leroy Gordon Cooper and Charles Conrad, Jr., visited Ethiopian Emperor Haile Selassie in the royal palace in Addis Ababa, then made the fourth stop of their goodwill tour-after Greece, Turkey, and Ethiopia-the Malagasy Republic. They were received cordially. (AP, Wash. Eve, Star, 9/21/65; UPI, Miami Her, 9/22/65)
Technical Systems Office, Technical Staff Office, Operations Management Office, and Missions Operation Office had been established at MSFC "to centralize future projects and advanced systems operations and to streamline MSFC's effort . .. with manned and unmanned launch vehicles." The move abolished as entities the Saturn/Apollo Systems Office and Advanced Systems Concepts Office. (MSFC Release 65-232)
International Association of Machinists had accused NASA and USAF of using pressure to help Boeing as the IAM strike went into its sixth day, according to Aviation Daily, IAM said NASA and USAF had demanded that Boeing employees at Cape Kennedy use only one gate and then followed this with an order restricting IAM pickets to that gate. The union complied and removed picket lines at other gates. Hundreds of building trades workers who had been respecting the picket lines had returned to work, W. J. Usery, representative at the Cape, called the Government move illegal support of Boeing and said that "if pressure is to be applied it should be equal pressure," referring to the absence of Government pressure to end the strike. (Av. Daily, 9/21/65)
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