Dec 20 1965
From The Space Library
NASA announced it had extended the Scout Reentry Heating Project to include one more ballistic flight and had invited industry to submit proposals for the design of the spacecraft, Sub-orbital reentry experiment was scheduled for 1967 and would be sixth in the Langley Research Center project. It would require launching of a 13-ft.-long, pointed cone from Wallops Island, Va, using a modified three-stage Scout launch vehicle with no heat shield. Reentry would take place near Bermuda at a velocity between 12,000 and 13,000 mph. (NASA Release 65-384)
In season's greetings to NASA employees, Administrator James E. Webb said: "During 1965 we have continued our effects to place and keep the United States in a position second to none in space and aeronautics. This is significant for many reasons, but the most important of these, perhaps, is the fact that our efforts constitute a very real and significant contribution toward the ultimate realization of the true meaning of Christmas-peace on earth." (NASA Hq.)
Gemini VII Astronauts Frank Borman and James A. Lovell flew from the carrier Wasp to KSC where they had a brief reunion with Gemini VI Astronauts Walter M. Schirra, Jr., and Thomas P. Stafford, who were departing later in the day for MSC for further medical debriefing. (AP, NYT, 12/20/65, 10C)
L/Col. Pavel R. Popovich, who orbited the earth 48 times in VOSTOK IV in August 1962, said in an interview with Izvestia that the rendezvous of Gemini VI and GEMINI VII was "a great achievement of American cosmonautics on the way to exploiting space around the earth." (Reuters, NYT, 12/22/65, 19)
Dr. Caryl P. Haskins, president of Carnegie Institution of Washington, warned in his report for 1964-1965 against confusing technology with science, He said the main job of technology was to turn out socially useful products while the essential goal of science was the search for truth. (Rpt. of Pres, 12/20/65)
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