Dec 13 1964
From The Space Library
RELAY I began its third year in orbit and could still send clear, high-resolution television and audio signals across oceans and continents. The communications satellite had circled the globe 5,685 times and accomplished 186 demonstrations and 2,139 experiments, with a transponder-on time of 334 hours. The RELAY I project was directed by NASA Goddard Space Flight Center. (NASA Release 64-213)
USAF launched Thor-Able-Star launch vehicle from WTR with unidentified satellite payload. It was later revealed that two satellites were placed in orbit (HHN-48)
Translations of reports in Russian journals indicated that space flights lasting longer than 24 hours produced changes in the human body, in-cluding bladder and kidney troubles, that could not be corrected. Future Soviet flights would be aimed at detecting the beginning of these dis-orders and attempting to prevent them. The translations indicated that the Russians planned to send up more doctors and physiologists and that the primary reason for the 16-mo. delay between flights by the U.S.S.R. was the seriousness of the disorders affecting astronauts after flights lasting for five days. Future crews Would be selected "as medi-al teams as opposed to individuals," said one Soviet journal. The men would also be picked on the basis of their medical compatibility-to see that one man's personal germs, bacteria, or virus did not infect other members of the team. (Burkett, Houston Chron., 12/13/64)
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