Sep 28 1966
From The Space Library
USAF launched an unidentified satellite from Vandenberg AFB using Titan III-B-Agena D launch vehicle. ‘‘(UPI, Wash. Daily News, 9/29/66, 24; U S . Aeron. & Space Act., 1966, 156)’’
700-seat auditorium would be built at National Academy of Sciences and a special award established as a memorial to Dr. Hugh L. Dryden, late NASA Deputy Administrator. Financing would be by Hugh L. Dryden Memorial Fund, established by Dr. Dryden’s personal friends and scientific associates shortly after his death in December 1965. Announcement was made jointly by Mrs. Dryden, NASA Administrator James E. Webb, and NAS President Dr. Frederick Seitz. Commenting on proposed memorial, Webb said: “To a very large degree NASA and NASA’s program owe their existence and success to Hugh Dryden. . . . His wise leadership as Deputy Administrator of NASA and as NASA’s first scientist, played a leading role in creating effective working relationships between Government, industry, and the universities of the Nation to meet the tremendous new scientific and engineering tasks of the space age.” Dr. Seitz said: “It is particularly appropriate that funds raised in the name of Hugh Dryden, who served the Academy for ten years as its Home Secretary, be used to provide the Academy with an auditorium in which scientific and engineering questions of national importance could be discussed and considered. Dryden’s remarkable personal gifts as fundamental scientist, engineer, and public administrator were responsible, in great measure, for this nation’s preeminence in aviation and its successes in space. To all his activities, he brought ethical and professional standards that were deeply admired by all who knew him.” ‘‘(NAS-NRC Release; NAS-NRC-NAE News Rpt., 1; Wash. Post, 9/28/66, B4)’’
LaRC awarded 7-mo. study contracts, valued at $390,000 each, to Northrop Corp. and Fairchild-Hiller Corp. to design V/Stol aircraft for research on handling qualities and operation during instrument approach in the terminal area. Aircraft would be used by NASA and USAF to gather flight research information necessary to improve operation of V/Stol jet aircraft in hovering and transition speed range. ‘‘(NASA Release 66-259)’’
US. invited NATO allies to use its military comsat system temporarily and to collaborate in joint development of new system specifically for the alliance. US. would make time available on its seven-satellite military network launched by USAF Titan III rocket June 17. To adapt system to NATO’s needs, it was proposed that new ground station be built in Naples to operate with one under construction in the Netherlands and another operating in West Germany. In early 1968, satellite would be launched from US. site into synchronous orbit at 22,300-mi. (35,903-km.) altitude for alliance’s exclusive use. It could be built by consortium of member countries. Eventually, comsat system was envisaged whose relays would permit use of ground stations small enough to be carried on a truck which could be used by military units on the move. Cost of plan was said to be some $50 million. Proposal would be on agenda of next meeting of NATO’s foreign ministers, set tentatively for Dec. 15-16. ‘‘(Mooney, NYT, 9/29/66, 1; Nossiter, Wash. Post, 9/29/66, A22)’’
M2-F2 lifting-body vehicle, piloted by L/C Donald Sorlie (USAF), was air-launched from B-52 aircraft at 45,000-ft. altitude in ninth glide fight at Edwards AFB. Purposes of flight were to complete pilot checkout and to extend the M2-FZ’s flight envelope. ‘‘(NASA Proj. Off.)’’
Soviet physicians, according to Tass, had reported that highlanders or people who had lived for a long time in mountain areas made the best astronaut candidates since they “spend the energy of their organism much more economically. They used less oxygen when doing physical work; had approximately 30 per cent greater resistance to oxygen shortage; and possessed “heightened resistance to infrared, ultraviolet, and cosmic radiations.” ‘‘(Tass, 9/29/66)’’
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