Sep 3 1970
From The Space Library
USAF launched unidentified satellite from Vandenberg AFB by Thor-Burner II booster into orbit with 872.3-km (542-mi) apogee, 764.4-km (475-mi) perigee, 101:2-min period, and 98.7° inclination. (Pres Rpt 71; GSFC SSR, 9/30/70)
AIAA announced selection of MSC Deputy Director Christopher C. Kraft, Jr., to receive Louis W. Hill Space Transportation Award for 1970. Certificate and $5000 honorarium for "outstanding management and leadership in directing the planning and operational control of all United States manned space flight missions from the first Mercury suborbital mission through the first Apollo lunar landing" would be presented Oct. 22. AIAA also named three honorary fellows who would receive certificates Oct. 21: Dr. Grover Loening, retired aircraft inventor; Dr. Wernher von Braun, NASA Deputy Associate Administrator for Planning; and Dr. Stanley G. Hooker, Technical Director of Rolls Royce Bristol Engine Div. in England. (AIAA Releases)
Dozen veterans of 118-member German V-2 rocket team of Dr. Wernher von Braun had received notice of demotion or layoff from NASA at MSFC, New York Times reported. At least seven would lose their jobs altogether before Oct. 1 because of manpower reductions. Notices had come as team was planning October reunion to mark 25th anniversary of its arrival in U.S. (Wilford, NYT, 9/3/70, 1)
Federal financing of SST would be "complete misplacement of national priorities," Mayor John V. Lindsay of New York said in letter to Sen. John C. Stennis (D-Miss.), Chairman of Senate Appropriations Committee's Subcommittee on Transportation. "I am prepared to do all in my power to prevent any SST from landing at New York's airports until it is proven safe both to our environment and to the health of our citizens." (UPI, W Star, 9/4/70, A5)
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