Jun 28 1964
From The Space Library
NASA Administrator James E. Webb said in open message to AIAA, convening in Washington, that Saturn V space booster, used in Project Apollo, would enable U.S. to "catch up with and pass the Russians" in space. "But the development and flight testing of this rocket have been delayed by a reduction of $600 million in the NASA budget for this fiscal year and efforts are now being made to further delay it through reductions of up to $500 million for the next fiscal year. This effort to slow up and hold back the progress both President Kennedy and President Johnson have recommended is a matter of important and immediate concern as the AIAA meets. "Members of AIAA will do well to study and understand the very large foundation of space operational capability which is now being put in place by this country and consider the long-range future of space in terms of the proper use of a will be very large. . . ." (Text, Wash. Post, 6/28/64)
New maps of the moon made by USAF Aeronautical Chart and Information Center, St. Louis, were termed "the best lunar maps ever made" by E. A. Whitaker, astronomer at Lunar and Planetary Laboratory in Tucson, Ariz., and Dr. Eugene M. Shoemaker, lunar geologist of U.S. Geological Survey Observatory in Flagstaff, Ariz. Maps were on scale of one inch equals eight miles. (Burkett, Houston Chron., 6/28/64)
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