May 1 1965
From The Space Library
Monthly Apollo weight and balance report July 1965
NASA Administrator James E. Webb, speaking at Rose Polytechnic Institute, Terre Haute, Ind.: "Indeed, the success of the national space program depends to a very large degree on the quality and the extent of involvement by the universities. Their most important contribution would naturally be in doing the jobs they are uniquely qualified to do, that is, in research and in educating and training at both the undergraduate and graduate levels the scientists engineers, and other professional personnel required by the space program... "With its university program, the National Aeronautics and Space Administration is approaching a goal established early in its history. That goal, when achieved, will provide a substantial increment to those trained men who are capable of guiding this country's undertakings in science and technology confidently toward future needs that are only partially visible to us now. That goal is being pursued in institutions of higher learning where men teach and practice their specialties in the context of other highly refined fields of interest. Surely, this concept is broader than the space program itself." (Text)
YF-12A, USAF'S twin jet, delta-winged interceptor prototype, established four speed and altitude records at Edwards AFB: (1) 2,062 mph straight-away speed record, breaking the 1,655.9 mph previous record held by the Soviet Union's E-166; (2) 80,000-ft, record for sustained altitude in horizontal flight, exceeding the E-166's 74,376-ft, record; (3) 1,688 mph record for 1,000-km, closed-course event with 2000-kg. (4,409-lb.) cargo, surpassing the 1,441 mph record set by the E-166 in April 1965; and (4) 1,642 mph record for 500-km, closed-course event, topping Soviet performance of 1,452 mph, USAF pilots Col. Robert L. Stephens and Lt. Col. Daniel Andre set the first two records; Maj. Walter F. Daniel and Capt, James Cooney, the others. YF-12A performed under requirements of the Fédération Aeronautique Internationale, world authority for verification of flight records. (DOD Release 281-65; NYT, 5/9/65, 88)
Possibility that the wake of ice crystals-contrails-produced by supersonic jets would persist and spread into a thin, semipermanent haze layer at about 14-mi. altitude, increasing temperature of the air mass below, altering global wind patterns, and effecting unpredictable climate changes had been suggested by several weather specialists, reported Walter Sullivan. (Sullivan, NYT, 5/1/65, 1)
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