Apr 12 1965
From The Space Library
explores areas on the moon which Man would have difficulty in reaching. ... "We suggest that if anyone proposed exploring the Antarctic in such a manner, he would be clapped in the pokey as a nut, Man is going to the Moon and he is going to explore it. Expenditure of billions of dollars on instruments remotely controlled from Earth to do the same job is folly." (M&R, 4/12/65, 46)
Chickens exposed to one half to three times the earth's gravity had contracted chronic acceleration sickness in tests conducted at the Univ. of California, Dr. Russell R. Burton, a veterinarian at the University conducting experiments as part of a program supported by NASA and the Office of Naval Research, said there was great variation among the chickens in susceptibility to the sickness: "Some chickens will show symptoms after a few days at 1.5g, but others not until many months at 3g, and, of course, some never exhibit any of the symptoms. However, once the sickness develops, symptoms are the same." Sick fowl developed enlarged adrenal glands and their digestive functions became abnormal. Some chickens' legs were paralyzed as a result of increased gravity forces. Objective of the tests was to determine effects of artificially altering body weight, Interest in increased gravity fields stemmed from greater fields present on other planets such as Jupiter, which has gravity 2½ times that on earth. (Av. Wk, 4/12/65, 79)
Robert Hotz, editorializing in Aviation Week and Space Technology, said that it could be a "dangerous mistake" to defer development of earth-orbital operational capabilities until financial and technical peak loads of Apollo had been passed: "The Soviets obviously have chosen the earth-orbital approach to their lunar landing mission. Therefore, they necessarily must develop rather fully their hardware and operational techniques in this area as a vital prelude to their lunar landing attempts and not as a postlude, in the manner of current U.S. planning. They also have made little attempt to conceal their primary military interest in the development of manned spacecraft operations in the earth-orbital area. "Thus, it is entirely possible that unless U.S. policy is drastically changed soon, the Soviets may have an opportunity to achieve the technical surprise in space that they so narrowly missed in the race to an intercontinental ballistic missile." (Av. Wk., 4/12/65, 21)
Pravda announced the birth of Russia's third "space baby": a son to Cosmonaut Valery F. Bykovsky and his wife Valentina. (UPI, Wash, Daily News, 4/13/65)
Week of April 12: European Space Research Organization (ESRO) selected Laboratoire Central de Telecommunications (LCT), a wholly-owned French subsidiary of International Telephone and Telegraph Corp., as prime contractor for development of Esro 1 polar ionosphere satellite. The $3-million contract awarded called for development and production of one prototype and two flying satellites-one a backup-to gather information on ionospheric and particle conditions in the northern polar region. (Av, Wk., 4/12/65, 37; Av, Wk, 4/19/65, 30)
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