Sep 5 1965
From The Space Library
The first photographs taken at the Yale-Columbia Observatory in the Andes in western Argentina had fulfilled the "best optimistic expectations," reported Professor Dirk Brouwer, director of the Yale Observatory, Brouwer said three test photographs of Orion, nebulae, and Omega Centauri had indicated the lenses apparently were the best of their kind. Principal mission of the Ford Foundation-financed observatory was to make two-hour exposures of the Southern Hemisphere sky to obtain positions of the stars in our galaxy against a background of distant galaxies. (UPI, NYT, 9/6/65, 31C)
Immanuel Velikovsky, author of the controversial Worlds in Collision (1950) , submitted that many of his rejected cosmological hypotheses had been confirmed by space science events: surface temperature of Venus, moon-like surface of Mars, the earth's magnetosphere, the interplanetary magnetic field, the radio noises of Jupiter, and other predictions, "A Tempest in the Cosmos." (Book Week, Wash. Post, 9/5/65, 2, 8, 9)
Washington Post discussed the role of a Manned Orbiting Laboratory (MOL) in arms control: "The primary mission of MOL, a canvass of Washington officials makes clear, is without a doubt to have man supplement the machine as a shutterbug spy in the sky. Hence man will advance the sensationally successful camera work of the unmanned Samos series of photo reconnaissance satellites now producing thousands of pictures of the Soviet Union and Communist China. "Human judgment is the critical new factor being added by use of the MOL , . "Here is what the Air Force believes ... men will be able to do: "They can use their judgment on what to photograph. They can be selective on when and where to aim not only one camera but a series of cameras including new and experimental photographic equipment. They can shoot accurately through a hole in clouds. And they can maintain and repair equipment that may have become inoperative... . "How , . will MOL contribute to arms control? "The thesis is that the two major nuclear powers are deterred not only by the nuclear weapons they possess but by what each knows-and how fast it knows-about what goes on, in a military sense, in the other's country. It is hoped that MOL will immensely add to that American capability in relation not only to the Soviet Union, but to China and, indeed, the whole world, "Indeed, it is not inconceivable that these developments could lead to manned synchronous satellites, able to hover over Russia and the United States ready to flash instant word on missile firings, rocket tests, nuclear explosions, mass troop movements or other important military activities. "The logic of this, from the arms controllers' viewpoint, is that all this could lead to a formal worldwide inspection agreement-peacekeeping from space. But short of such agreement, such space surveillance would vastly add to the deterrence on which today's nuclear peace is founded." (Simons and Roberts, Wash. Post, 9/5/65, Al, A5)
Significance of supersonic transport development was discussed in Nashville Tennessean: "Unless the United States goes ahead with the SST, domestic airlines will probably be forced to buy the supersonic Concorde being developed by Britain and France. "The 1,450-mile-per-hour Concorde is due to be ready for service in 1971 while the present schedule would have a U.S. SST flying by 1974, "Because the U.S. plane will be faster and carry 220 to 250 passengers as opposed to 118 to 132 for the Concorde, informed sources believe the 3-year lag will not be too damaging. "Some visionaries say the SST will be out-dated before it ever realizes the potential forecast by its proponents, "This school of thought suggests that 20 years from now, rocket-boosted passenger vehicles will hurl travelers across the seas at near orbital velocities, making cities on opposite sides of the earth less than an hour apart, "But each new generation of commercial air transports has descended from military parentage. And today the military has no active program which would logically produce this speedy type of civilian travel." (CR, 9/21/65, A5530-31)
New York Times editorialized: "... Until recently the idea of men returning to the seas to live and work seemed fantasy. But increasing population and the strain it has put on the resources of the land are forcing close attention to the enormous food reserves in the oceans and the incalculable mineral wealth under them. "It is these practical considerations that inspire the Sealab 2 project now begun 205 feet below sea level off the California shore... "The work of the aquanauts may not be as spectacular as the exploits of astronauts in outer space. But the chances are good that the experience they gain in what many now call inner space will help bring humanity rich material returns in the decades immediately ahead." (NYT, 9/5/65, 8E)
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