Nov 25 1963
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President John F. Kennedy was buried in Arlington National Cemetery in a state funeral attended by the largest gathering of foreign dignitaries ever to visit Washington. Throughout the four days of stark events, the Nation and the world participated to a degree never before possible by means of round-the-clock TV coverage that raised that young medium to a new dimension for thoroughness, maturity, and sensitivity. RELAY I communications satellite enabled all of Europe, including the U.S.S.R., to view the funeral ceremonies. The satellite also provided transmission across the Pacific to Japan, where an estimated 95 million persons viewed the ceremonies. (NYT, 11/26/63)
Stratoscope II balloon was launched from Palestine, Tex., landed near Kosciusko, Miss., some 18 hrs. later, having lifted a 31/2-ton 36-in. telescope some 80,000 ft. where the telescope, viewing space from a point above 95% of the earth's interfering atmosphere, photographed the infrared light coming from Jupiter, the moon, and two giant red stars. Dr. Marvin Schwarzchild, of Princeton Univ. and head of the scientific team, said they were hopeful that the photographs would provide another piece of evidence on the life cycle of stars. NSF, which has sponsored the series of Stratoscope balloon flights along with ONR and NASA, termed the flight "very successful." (Wash. Post, 11/28/63, L5; NYT, 12/3/63, 46)
In an article in Missile and Rockets, NASA Administrator James E. Webb emphasized the importance of the engineer in the space program : "During this period of intensive research and development, it becomes doubly important for industry, the press, and NASA to tell the workshop and test site story as well as the launch site story. The role of the space engineer must be brought out as clearly as the achievements of space scientists and the astronauts . . . . " (M&R, 11/25/63)
Missiles and Rockets article on NASA's advanced research program said : "The greatest single obstacle to development of new and improved rocket engines-large or small-lies in certain peculiar sounds emitted by powerplants in operation. "Commonly called screech, screaming, squealing or buzzing, the sounds are all manifestations of combustion instability-one of least understood characteristics of a rocket engine. "The key to the lack of knowledge and understanding of the phenomenon is in the very complexity of the combustion process within the engine." (M&R, 11/25/63, 63)
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