Apr 15 1966
From The Space Library
Space News for this day. (2MB PDF)
Representatives of Intelsat (International Telecommunications Satellite Consortium) toured NASA Marshall Space Flight Center and received briefing on MSFC programs and research projects. (MSFC Release 66-77)
NASA's Procurement Office reorganized into two main divisions: Policy and Review, and Contract Management. George J. Vecchietti, Director of Procurement, named Paul A. Barron, formerly GSA Assistant General Counsel for Regulations and General Law; Assistant Director of Procurement for Policy and Review. William P. Risso, formerly Special Assistant to Director of Procurement, was named Assistant Director of Procurement for Contract Management. Vecchietti also announced establishment of Procurement Surveys Div., with Harvey M. Kennedy, Jr., Director, and Staff Operations Div., with Harold E. Pryor, Director. (NASA Release 66-81)
U.S.S.R. had constructed two stations in the United Arab Republic and Mali to photograph artificial earth satellites, Tass reported. Stations had been equipped by U.S.S.R. and were being operated by Soviet, U.A.R., and Mali specialists. (Reuters, NYT, 4/16/66, 13)
Vice President Hubert Humphrey said in address at the Air Force Academy, Colorado Springs, Colo. : "It was seventy years ago this May that Samuel Pierpont Langley, Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, launched his sixteen-foot, steam-powered model airplane off the Potomac River and flew a half a mile in the incredible time of 90 seconds. . . . "Seventy years-in the larger scheme of history-is not a very long time. "But though those seventy years are but the average length of a full American life, they reach back into an incredibly distant world-a world that has receded from us by a quantum of change that no other period in the vast sweep of human history can surpass. "One measure of that change is flight itself. "I flew here this morning from Washington-nonstop-in 3 hours and 20 minutes.. "Had I made the flight from Washington to Colorado Springs in Langley's plane, it would have required 127 days-and we would have had to make 2,987 fuel stops along the way. . . . (Text)
USAF had accepted and funded at cost of $18.5 million more than one fourth of the unsolicited proposals it had received from industrial and scientific community during first half of FY 1966. The 319 proposals accepted promised needed technological advances in operational aerospace systems. (AFSC Release 71.66)
GEMINI VI command pilot Walter M. Schirra, Jr., received an honorary Doctor of Aeronautical Engineering degree from Lafayette College, Easton, Pa., during convocation commemorating 100 yrs. of science and engineering instruction on the campus. (MSC Roundup, 4/29/66, 1; UPI, Wash. Post, 4/16/66, D4)
NASA Administrator, James E. Webb, incoming president of American Society for Public Administration (ASPA) , discussed responsibilities of administering a "Great Society" at ASPA conference in Washington, D.C. Webb said that ". . . with the seething mass of humanity all around the world, not many of them very happy today, we have a strong requirement for effective administration, precision in the use of public power, for prediction, for planned use of limited resources. . . . "It seems to me that the public administrator in this period . . . must be a bigger, broader person than has been required in the past because the forces he must work with are so much larger, and yet so much more complex. . . . Somehow he must command the respect and following that will convert criticism from destruction of ideas to clarification and perfection of those ideas. . . . I believe his performance will be measured . . . by the scope and sweep of his vision and adjustment to some forces that will be beyond his ability to predict or control; also his ability to ride the crest of the wave, that wave of the incoming tide of tomorrow that is now bringing in the fruits of a vital and vigorous society." (Text)
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