Apr 16 1963
From The Space Library
NASA announced it would negotiate with General Electric Co. for an extension of GE's Project Apollo support effort to provide plant and test support services at NASA Mississippi Test Facility. Estimated cost of initial one-year contract was $1.5 million. (NASA Release 63-75)
High winds forced postponement of an attempt to send two men to 85,000-ft. altitude in Project Stargazer balloon, Holloman AFB, New Mexico. Purposes of flight were to determine at what altitude stars cease appearing to twinkle and feasibility of manned balloon observatories. (AP, Wash. Eve. Star, 4/16/63, A3)
28-nation N al subcommittee of U.N. Committee for Peaceful Uses of Outer pace opened its Three-week session at U.N. Headquarters, N.Y. (NYT, 4/14/63, 21)
Soviet Ambassador to U.N., Nikolai T. Fedorenko, announced Soviets had broken off private talks with U.S. on uses of space and would submit its own declaration on space exploration to the Legal Subcommittee of the Committee on Peaceful Uses of Outer Space. (NYT, 4/17/63,1; Wash,. Post, 4/17/63)
AEC announced Chairman Glenn T. Seaborg would visit U.S.S.R. in May at invitation of Andronik M. Petrosyants, Chairman of Soviet State Committee for Peaceful Uses of Atomic Energy. Primary purpose of visit would be signing of memorandum of cooperation m peaceful uses of atomic energy, calling for exchange of scientists between U.S. and U.S.S.R. and exchange of technical papers on research results. (NYT, 4/17/63, 6)
Senator Clifford P. Case (R.-N.J.) said in press conference he would urge Congressional investigation to determine whether U.S. was channeling too many resources into space programs to the detriment of other Federal programs. Senator Case said he would recommend to Senator Clinton P. Anderson (D.-N.M.), Chairman of Committee on Aeronautical and Space Sciences, that the committee conduct "a pretty thorough review of the whole space program." (AP, Wash. Eve. Star, 4/17/63)
Saturn I ground test booster arrived at Cape Canaveral after 10-day trip from NASA Marshall Space Flight Center, Huntsville, Ala. It would be used with S-IV stage in series of tests to check out the launch complex. (Huntsville Times, 4/16/63)
The first NASA Saturn S-IV stage destined to fly in space left the Douglas Missile and Space Systems Divisions at Santa Monica, Calif., on the initial leg of its journey to Cape Canaveral. (Space News Roundup, 1/8/64, 2)
Donald L. Nored, Lewis engineer, described NASA contract with Stanford Research Institute to study one of the most complex problems in high-energy rocketry-simple ignition. Preliminary results offer promise that a tiny quantity of ozone difluoride mixed with liquid oxygen will cause the lox to ignite immediately on contacting liquid hydrogen. (LRC Release 63-15; Lewis Chronology, 3 )
Federal mediators announced tentative agreement between Boeing Co. and International Association of Machinists, to be voted on union members April 17. Agreement was reached after nine days of intensive negotiation in Washington and averted the strike of more than 40,000 Boeing employees scheduled to begin midnight April 16. (Wall Street Journal, 4/16/63)
