Sep 29 1967
From The Space Library
Space News for this day. (2MB PDF)
The Senate had unanimously passed S.J. Res. 109, which would mark the 50th anniversary of the Langley Research Center in October 1967. (NASA WR VI/102)
Dr. Donald H. Menzel of the Harvard College Observatory said in a letter to Time that he planned to propose naming features of moon's far side for the three American astronauts and one Russian cosmonaut who lost their lives in accidents connected with space research. Features were to be named at 1970 meeting of International Astronomical Union. (Time, 9/29/67,11)
A contract for operation of NASA's Scientific and Technical Information Facility at College Park, Md., had been renewed by NASA with Documentation, Inc., Bethesda, Md., at an estimated $5.6 million for one year. The company had been operating the facility since its inception in 1962. The facility used modern computer techniques ,to store and retrieve a large volume of scientific and technical reports for the benefit of Government, university, and industrial users. (NASA Release 67-255)
Western Electric received a $43.4 million addition to an existing Nike-X research and development contract. Approximately $18.0 million of this was initial implementation of the decision announced Sept. 18 by Secretary of Defense Robert S. McNamara to deploy a Communist Chinese-oriented ABM system. The remainder of the announced addition of $43.4 million would be for continuous research and development on the Nike-X system, supplementing the FY 1968 contract signed early in September. Under that contract Western Electric had received initially $215.3 million for continued research and development effort on Nike-X. The Communist Chinese-oriented ABM system would consist of two types of radar and two interceptor missiles. (DOD Release 992-67)
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