Sep 30 1963
From The Space Library
Francis W. Reichelderfer retired as Chief of U.S. Weather Bureau, succeeded by Robert M. White. (Wash. Post, 10/1/63)
AEC announced that "signals from a Department of Defense Satellite launched recently from Vandenberg AFB, by a Thor-Able-Star missile are being transmitted successfully with electricity from a nuclear power Source developed by the AEC." The device, SNAP 9-A was boosted into Space by a launch crew of the Air Force Space Systems Division's 6595th Aerospace Test Wing. (A-N-AF Journal and Register, Jan. 1964; A&AE, Nov. 1963, 11)
Tiros meteorological satellite discovered Hurricane Flora in the Atlantic off northern coast of South America. (UPI, Wash. Post, 10/1/63)
NASA Flight Research Center announced refinement of tracking data showed Joseph A. Walker reached record altitude of 354,200 ft. in his X-15 flight of Aug. 22, 3,200 ft. higher than preliminary figure previously announced. (NASA Release 63-219)
AFSC announced the development of a new pressure suit by ASD, Wright-Patterson AFB, for X-20 Dyna-Soar pilots. The suit would permit more freedom of movement than its predecessors and could be worn for 36 hours without discomfort. (AFSC Operational Highlights, 13)
Address on Research and Development and the Federal Budget, by BOB Executive Assistant Director William D. Carey, inserted in Congressional Record by Rep. John W. McCormack. Carey Said " . . Government's part in the research and development business has now reached the point where it commands attention because of its sheer size and propensity for growth. From here on, we will have to be more choosy in what we do, and better prepared to supply answers to questions about marginal costs and benefits. The budget this year for research and development is a husky $15 billion. Its growth potential dwarfs anything else in the budget. Someone has figured out that the doubling time for research and development as a fraction of national income is only 7 years, and that if this continued for 30 years research and development would rise to one-half of the national income. " . it is my view that the difficulty here is . . . one of organizing research about research, of developing more adequate insights into cost-benefit relationships, of illuminating our value analysis So that we can with greater confidence Strike a balance between being first in high energy accelerators and being first in education and in decent living and job opportunity. I do not think that Government alone can reach these answers, but perhaps Government can-and indeed I believe it must-be as proportionately lavish in stimulating this kind of intellectual inquiry as it has been in endowing science and technology...." (Text, CR, 9/30/63, A6108-09)
Columnist David Lawrence wrote that many billions of space research dollars could be more. beneficially used for developing the vast uninhabitable areas of the earth to accommodate bigger populations. (Wash. Eve. Star, 9/30/63)
In Missiles and Rockets editorial, William J. Coughlin offered five answers to President Kennedy's rhetorical question, "Why, therefore, should man's first flight to the Moon be a matter of national competition?" Coughlin's reasons: "Because it is important to the survival of the United States that we develop the Science and technology which gives us the capacity to send a manned expedition to the Moon and back ... ; because there is national prestige at stake ... ; because it is important to our military security ... ; because we are engaged in an economic war with the Soviet Union ... ; [and] because we believe in finishing what we start." (M&R, 9/30/63, 86)
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