Jul 7 1967
From The Space Library
Space News for this day. (2MB PDF)
NASA Aerobee 150 sounding rocket launched from WSMR carried MIT x-ray experiment to 88-mi (142-km) altitude to search for undiscovered x-ray sources and to obtain data on celestial locations and energy spectra of "discrete celestial X-ray sources" in three regions. Rocket and instruments performed satisfactorily. (NASA Rpt SRL)
NASA Associate Administrator for Space Science and Applications Dr. Homer E. Newell and OSSA Director of Space Applications Programs Leonard Jaffe discussed impact of space research on science and technology in Science. As a result of space research, they said, science and technology could contribute to the arts by furnishing new media for human expression; enrich the humanities by furnishing new media for broader basis for understanding himself and his place in nature; provide the historian with a better approach to history because of scientific methodology; and enable archeologists more accurately to date materials and identify their sources. As the entire world "absorbs the increased understanding of man and nature that science generates, and reflects that understanding in its literature, its social, political, and economic institutions, and its application to human daily living . . . it may be hoped that this common bond will . . . give increased motivation to solve peaceably the problems that beset the world . . . [and] provide increased means for doing so. . . . To use properly and effectively these powerful tools of our times is an inescapable challenge to men and governments the world over." (Newell, Jaffe, Science, 7/7/67,29-39)
ComSatCorp filed notice with FCC of three proposed contract awards totaling more than $13 million for antenna subsystems and related equipment to be installed at West Virginia, California, Puerto Rico, and Hawaii earth stations. Fixed-price contracts proposed included $7,600,000 to Philco-Ford Corp. for four antenna subsystems; $4,500,000 to Raytheon Co. for four ground communications equipment subsystems; and $1,015,000 to Cutler-Hammer, Inc., for four low-noise receiver subsystems. Construction on three new earth stations and expansion of facilities at Hawaii station were expected to begin in late 1967. (ComSatCorp Release 67-36)
H. Frank Hann became Director of the Financial Management Div., Office of Administration, NASA Hq. He had been Acting Director since April 3. (NASA Ann, 7/12/67)
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