Sep 5 1964
From The Space Library
President Johnson announced in his news conference that Polaris A-3 missile "will soon become part of our strategic missile force. The new A-3 will be deployed for the first time aboard the nuclear submarine USS Daniel Webster when she begins her first patrol later this month. "The A-3 missile, which was put into accelerated development in 1964, has a range of 2500 nautical miles, some 1000 nautical miles greater than that of the A-2 and more than double that of the A-1. . . ." The President also announced that AEC and DOD were "proceeding with the development of a new, high-powered, long-lived reactor, which constitutes a major step forward in nuclear technology.. . "Two of these reactors could power an attack aircraft carrier as compared with eight reactors required for the USS Enterprise. . . ." (Transcript, Wash. Post, 9/6/64)
Lunar photographs made by RANGER VII and interpretations of their findings were discussed in Saturday Review by Science Editor John Lear: "The net sum of the evidence here recited is that the Congress and the people have been misled about the true significance of the Ranger VII mission. The pictures sent back home by the ingeniously constructed robot dragonfly contain no more assurance of the safety of a manned landing on the moon than existed before Ranger VII took off. On the contrary, one sure danger has been discovered that had not been suspected before. The apparent disappearance of the sup-posed danger of impenetrable dust is accompanied by the equal danger of a landing surface that may be as fragile as a tea biscuit. Ranger VII couldn't possibly have seen what matters most of all when human expeditions of the moon are being weighed: the bearing strength of the lunar face. Given man's present limited knowledge of soil physics, no photograph could tell whether the moon's surface will hold a spaceboat or even a lone man. . . ." (SR, 9/5/64, 35-43)
USAF's START (Spacecraft Technology and Advanced Re-entry Test) pro-gram was discussed by James J. Haggerty, Jr., in Journal of the Armed Forces. START, according to Haggerty, "appears to be more than . . . an expansion of the ASSET program. . . . START involves a dozen or more areas of investigation in the general field of re-entry. It could lead to development of a manned re-entry vehicle for use with the Manned Orbital Laboratory, one which could make a maneuvering re-entry to a landing field, as opposed to the ballistic flight path of the Gemini space-craft which will be the original MOL re-entry vehicle. Looking farther down the road, START technology could provide the basis for eventual development of a large ferry vehicle for shuttling men and supplies to and from an orbiting space station. . First contract for this new type of spacecraft was awarded recently to Martin Marietta Corp. for ablative-type re-entry body, designated SV-5, capable of maneuvering during re-entry into earth's atmosphere at hypersonic-transonic speeds. SV-5 was said to be only one portion of broad START program, which would investigate a number of other re-entry body shapes, possibly even lifting body types such as M-2 and HL-10 being investigated by NASA. (J /Armed Forces, 9/5/64, 5)
More emigrating scientists and engineers settle in the U.S. than in any other country, according to Dr. Charles V. Kidd, Associate Director for International Activities of National Institutes of Health, writing in UNESCO publication. From 1949 through 1961, 43,000 scientists and engineers (average of 3,350 per year) immigrated to U.S., reaching peak of 5,800 per year in 1957. (O'Kane, NYT, 9/6/64, 20)
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