Sep 26 1965
From The Space Library
NASA ceased operation of RELAY II communications satellite after a final demonstration broadcast during which Sen. B. Everett Jordon (D-N,C.) spoke via the satellite from Exposition Hall in Atlantic City in opening the week-long International Exposition of the American Textile Machinery Assn, there. After the demonstration, the Mojave Desert Ground Station, the only one in the world equipped to communicate with RELAY II, was closed to begin modifications for use in the ATS (Applications Technology Satellite) program, Since its launch Jan, 21, 1964, RELAY II had performed experiments demonstrating the feasibility of a worldwide system of communications by spacecraft and the technology for such a system. (NASA Release 65-306)
Astronaut M. Scott Carpenter and nine fellow aquanauts rose 205 ft, from Sealab II in a pressurized personnel transfer capsule. They would decompress on the support ship Berkone for about 30 hrs, before being exposed to atmospheric pressure, Carpenter had completed a record 29 days and 14 hrs, in the ocean-bottom laboratory; his associates had been below 15 days as had another team before them. A third team of ten men would complete the Navy's 45-day experiment in underwater living and working. President Johnson phoned congratulations to Carpenter. (Wash. Post, 9/27/65)
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