Sep 6 1966
From The Space Library
President Johnson signed FY 1967 Independent Offices Appropriation Bill (H.R. 14921) , which included $4,968,000,000 NASA appropriation-below $5 billion for first time since FY 1963. (NASA LAR V/144)’’
Boeing Co., Lockheed Aircraft Co., General Electric Co., and Pratt & Whitney Div., United Aircraft Corp., submitted final designs for 1,800mph SST to FAA. Evaluation team of Government and airline experts was expected to submit engine and airframe choices to FAA Administrator William F. McKee by Nov. 1. Final selection would be announced by President Johnson in late 1966. ‘‘(AP, Wash. Post, 9/7/66, D7; Clark, NYT, 9/7/66, 26)’’
Rebutting Aug. 14 Washington Sunday Star editorial which called the US. SST program “a dubious venture moved by extraordinary pressures,” Sen. Warren G. Magnuson (D-Wash.) told Senate that program was “moving forward on a logical basis” to make SST available for commercial use in 1974 at total cost of about $4.5 billion-25% of which would be paid by manufacturers. Senator Magnuson said that planners were “well aware” of potential hazards of excess radiation, internal heat, lack of maneuverability, and structural stress suggested by Star and assured the Senate that aircraft had been designed “to preclude catastrophic conditions. . . .’ ‘‘(CR, 9/6/66, 20909-10; Tech. Wk., 9/5/66, 17)’’
Two NASA Nike-Tomahawks launched about six hours apart from Churchill Research Range reached 145mi. (238-km.) and 150-mi. (243-km.) altitudes. They were second and third in series of four NASA-Univ. of California, Berkeley, experiments to obtain proton and electron measurements. Both rockets and instrumentation performed satisfactorily; first rocket’s nose cone did not eject until after apogee, but good data were received [see Sept. 1, 16]. ‘‘(NASA Rpt. SRL)’’
Soviet rocket tests begun Aug. 25 in the Pacific had been completed six weeks ahead of schedule, Tass announced. ‘‘(Tass, 9/6/66; WI, NYT)’’
NASA awarded facilities grants totaling $3.2 million to Univ. of Wisconsin and Univ. of Washington to provide “urgently needed” quarters and specialized facilities for space-related research and training. ‘‘(NASA Release 66-244)’’
NASA awarded George Washington Univ. a three-year, $750,000 grant “to undertake a multidisciplinary program of policy studies in science, technology, and public administration.” Program was expected to contribute to analysis of various policy questions related to development of the space program and utilization of knowledge derived from it. ‘‘(NASA Release 66-240)’’
A 1967 world conference on space to be held in Geneva, Paris, or Vienna was proposed by Soviet professor Anatoli A. Blagonravov to Legal Subcommittee of U.N. committee on Peaceful Uses of Outer Space meeting in New York. US. had favored 1968 meeting in New York. ‘‘(NYT)’’
Proposal to produce first worldwide live telecast in June 1967 was outlined at Geneva meeting of European Broadcasting Union. ABC, CBS, and NBC news executives expressed interest in proposal but would not commit themselves until details of program, under supervision of British Broadcasting Corp., were resolved. Live television transmission around the world would be possible after ComSatCorp’s planned launching of two communications satellites in fall 1966-one over the Atlantic, the other over the Pacific. ‘‘(Adams, NYT, 9/7/66)’’
1966’s second new comet-first with a tail-had been discovered by Dr. Roberto Barbon, Italian astronomer visiting Mt. Wilson and Mt. Palomar Observatories, and confirmed by Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory. Named for its discoverer, ninth magnitude object was in constellation Cetus. ‘‘(Sci. Serv., NYT, 9/6/66, 46)’’
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