Mar 23 1964
From The Space Library
USAF launched Titan II on successful test flight from Cape Kennedy. The nose cone, carrying malfunction detection instrumentation to be used in Project Gemini manned space flights, impacted 5,000 mi. down the Atlantic Missile Range. (AP, NYT, 3/24/64; M&R, 3/30/64, 16)
Two NASA Nike-Apache sounding rockets were launched from Ft. Churchill, Canada, and returned good data. The first attained 95-mi. altitude, its instrumented payload measuring light intensity and particle fluxes. Rice Univ. payload included two photometers, one scintillator, three Geiger counters, one Geiger tube, and two magnetometers. The second rocket reached 117-mi. altitude with instrumented payload to obtain data on charged particles responsible for the visual aurora and on those responsible for auroral absorption. (NASA Rpts. SRL)
NASA Electronics Research Center Site Evaluation Committee was formalized by Deputy Administrator Dr. Hugh L. Dryden. First task of the six-man committee would be to draft proposed plan for criteria and procedures to be used in the site evaluation; after doing this, the Committee would begin evaluating proposed sites in the Greater Boston area. Col. Robert P. Young, NASA Executive Officer, was appointed Chairman of the Committee. (NASA. Release 64-67; NASA Circular 311)
European Space Research Organization (ESRO) announced in Paris its plans for satellite development program. First two ESRO satellites would be launched into orbit from the U.S. with Scout boosters; launch vehicles for later satellites Would be supplied by member nations. ESRO set budget of $300 million for eight years. (NYT, 3/25/64, 31; A&A, 5/64, 9)
Michael L. Garbacz was appointed Program Manager, Meteorological Flight Projects, in NASA Hq. Office of Space Science and Applications. Garbacz had served as Acting Program Manager since Sept. 1963. (NASA Announcement 64-59)
By midnight deadline, 197 communications carriers had filed applications with FCC to invest in Communications Satellite Corp. (AP, NYT, 3/25/64, 53)
Economic analysis of short-haul transport by Systems Analysis and Research Corp. (SARC) was presented to FAA. SARC concluded modern 20-passenger, twin-engine aircraft would provide U.S. airlines the most favorable operating results for short-haul requirements. Study was part of FAA's program to promote development of economic, short-haul transport to replace the DC-3. (FAA Release 64-25)
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