Jul 13 1963

From The Space Library

NASA Director of Electronics and Control Dr. Albert J. Kelley made public two studies conducted by NASA on need for electronics research center and letters from NASA Administrator James E. Webb to Rep. George P. Miller and Sen. Clinton P. Anderson. Letters and studies pointed out that electronics diffi­culties comprised greatest single cause of failures in spacecraft and rockets during past five years. NASA had no highly developed skill in design of electronic components, and new center was ex­pected to fill that need. (Loony, N.Y. Herald Trib., 7/14/63)

Federal agencies announced plans to support new center for com­puter technology and biomedical research in Cambridge, Mass., area. Center would be managed by 12 universities and institutions in New England. $2,800,000 grant from National Institutes of Health was made for first-year support of center, and next year's Government grant of a "comparable" amount would be made by NASA. Government grants would continue for at least seven years and would cover cost of establishing center and operating it for that period. (Toth, NYT, 7/14/63,1)

Whirlpool Corp. won NASA contract for development of food supply, personal hygiene items, and waste disposal system for Project Gemini manned space flights. (AP, NYT, 7/14/63)

July 13-19: "Women in Aviation Week" proclaimed by Maryland's Governor J. Millard Tawes, Spotlighting All-Woman Trans­continental Air Race from Bakersfield, Calif., to Atlantic City. (Wash. Eve. Star, 7/3/63)

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