Jan 21 1966
From The Space Library
Space News for this day. (2MB PDF)
Full 2¼-min. duration test of fourth Saturn I-B booster (S-IB-4) was conducted on MSFC’s East Test Area facility. S-IB-4 would leave MSFC in late January for Michoud Assembly Facility for post-firing checkout. ‘‘(MSFC Release 66-25)’’
Astronaut Donald K. Slayton received an honorary Doctor of Engineering degree from Michigan Technological Univ. in ceremony at MSC. Degree was conferred “in recognition of high attainments in engineering.” As MSC Assistant Director for Flight Crew Operations, Slayton directed the Astronaut Office, Aircraft Operations Office, and the Flight Crew Support Div. ‘‘(MSC Roundup, 1/21/66,2)’’
Discussing Federal subsidization of scientific research in Science, Don K. Price, dean of Harvard Univ. Graduate School of Public Administration and new AAAS President, said: “We have to learn how to fit the research interests of free scientists into a pattern of public policy, and to take account of the need for balanced national development while building up our existing centers of high scientific quality. And we need, equally obviously, to devote our knowledge to the service of human welfare, as effectively as it has been enlisted in the service of national defense. We obviously have not yet learned how to do all these things. But we can at least begin, if we are not afraid to make some changes in some of our most stubborn political and administrative habits.” ‘‘(Science, 1/21/66, 290)’’
France was planning to build rockets bigger than the missiles now being developed for her nuclear strike force, reported an article in Air et Cosmos. One purpose was to enable France to orbit a European comsat without the help of an American-built launch vehicle. A second goal would be to provide France with advanced, solid-fuel boosters that could carry one-ton thermonuclear warheads over intercontinental distances or orbit military surveillance satellites. ‘‘(Air et Cosmos, 1/21/66)’’
K. T. Keller, retired president and board chairman of Chrysler Corp., died in London. He had been a special adviser to DOD, in 1950 had been appointed director of guided missiles by Gen. George C. Marshall, then Secretary of Defense. ‘‘(AP, Wash. Post, 1/22/66, B4)’’
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