Oct 6 1963

From The Space Library

The Hall of Science building at the New York World's Fair will not be ready to open for at least a month after the Fair opens on Apr. 22, 1964, the New York Times reported. Contests over whether the site should become a permanent science museum, the belated discovery that pilings had to be driven to Support the foundations, and the resulting increased costs of the building have all delayed construction. (Sullivan, NYT, 10/6/63, 1)

MSC is experiencing an_ increasing manpower shortage as it moves into high gear on Project Apollo, John Finney of the New York Times reported. Particularly scarce are top-flight engineers needed to oversee large systems and subsystems. MSC hopes that its manpower ceiling will be raised this year from the present 3,500 to around 5,500. (Finney, NYT, 10/6/63, 71)

Construction of the new NASA Manned Spacecraft Center at Hous­ton, Tex., was 75% complete. The first contingent of 80 people would move into the new quarters over the weekend, with general occupancy Scheduled for June 1964. (MSC Release 63-166; Fin­ney, NYT, 10/7/63)

Dr. Hugh L. Dryden, NASA Deputy Administrator, Speaking in Cleveland, Ohio, before the eight annual Inter-Church World Peace Seminar, said that possible U.S.-U.S.S.R. cooperation on space exploration would bog down in the Soviet's extreme security measures. Their security measures toward their space program were as stringent as that of the U.S. in regard to nuclear weapons, Dr. Dryden said. Text in CR,10/8/63, A6325)

D. Brainerd Holmes, former NASA Director of Manned Space Flight and now a senior vice president of Raytheon Co., said in a TV interview on ABC that the manned space flight program needed a Single manager with great freedom of action. The only way to run a large program, he said, "is to put the project manager in such complete char r . that he makes policy with very little approval above." (N YT, 10/7/632 23)

COSMOS XIX transmissions have been picked up by the Sohio Research Center near Cleveland, Ohio. The Center Said that Russian sat­ellites normally have an on-off Switch which the Russians can activate for transmission as the satellite passes over Russian territory. They theorized that the switch might have Stuck, causing the satellite to transmit continuously. (Cleveland Plain Dealer, 10/6/63)

"Informed sources" in Moscow said that Soviet Cosmo­nauts Andrian Nikolayev and Valentine Tereshkova were en­gaged to be married. (UPI, NYT,10/7/63 )

Editorial in the Washington Post called the weaknesses in quality control mentioned in the final report On Project Mercury "shock­ing," calling for "sweeping revision Of control standards previously existing in the aeronautics industry." Tying this into the GAO report On Centaur, the editorial concluded, "The NASA re­port on Mercury and the GAO report alike suggest it may be necessary to proceed with more deliberation, caution and control." (Wash. Post, 10/6/63)

Announced that transistorized sensory system, Myoelectric, to pro­vide astronauts with automatic control during high g was pat­ented recently by two Sperry Gyroscope engineers. (A&AE, December 1963, 5 )

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