Aug 16 1963

From The Space Library

NASA announced it and Soviet Academy of Sciences had approved Memorandum of Understanding providing for imple­mentation of cooperative space agreement reached June 1962 in Geneva. Memorandum outlined procedures for U.S.-U.S.S.R. exchange of meteorological data from weather satellites operated by each country, joint communications experiments using Echo II passive reflector satellite, and contributions of geomagnetic data from special respective satellites to World Magnetic Survey in 1965. Memorandum of Understanding was drafted at meet­ings between U.S. negotiators, led by NASA Deputy Administrator Dr. Hugh L. Dryden, and Soviet negotiators led by Academician Anatoli A. Blagonravov, Chairman of Commission of Explora­tion and Utilization of Outer Space of Soviet Academy of Sciences. (Memorandum of Understanding; NASA Release 63­186)

At, International Geophysical Year Conference in Los Angeles, Dr. W. G. Beynon of Great Britain said that plans for another IGY of international cooperation during 1968-69 peak sunspot activity were being discussed by Committee on Space Research (COSPAR). (Wash. Eve. Star, 8/16/63)

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