Jan 24 1964

From The Space Library

Paul L Styles, Chief of NASA Marshall Space Flight Center's Industrial Relations Office, was named Labor Director of NASA. In the new position, which he assumed in addition to his present one, Styles would advise NASA management officials at Hq. and all field installations on all aspects of labor-management relations, also would serve as NASA representative with Dept. of Labor, NLRB, President's Missile Sites Labor Commission, and Federal Mediation and Conciliation Service. (NASA Release 64-14)

Development of astronaut techniques for egress from Gemini spacecraft began this week at NASA Manned Spacecraft Center, MSC announced. Boilerplate model of Gemini spacecraft floats in water-filled tank; two subjects in the closed spacecraft practice egress and the man­ner, procedure, and time required are recorded for study. (MSC Release 64-19)

NASA Manned Spacecraft Center announced seven floors of the nine-floor Project Management building had been accepted for occupancy. The structure was expected to be ready for tenancy Feb. 20. To date, 13 MSC facilities at the Clear Lake site had been certified as ready for occupancy. (MSC Release 64-18)

NASA Lewis Research Center employees Robert Steinberg and William B. Schwab won $700 NASA incentive award for invention of method and device for rapidly mapping neutron flux of each section of nuclear research reactor. Other LRC awards: John W. Macomber won $500 for invention of nuclear reactor control rod assembly with improved driv­ing mechanism; Joseph M. Savino and Chester D. Lanzo, $200 award for developing simulated fuel assembly for nuclear reactor; and John C. Sturman, $100 award for transistorized logic circuit to handle data accumulated by satellites and transmit it back to earth. (LRC Release 64-8)

Pierre Chatenet, president of Euratom, said in Paris that nuclear energy developments and advances in space technology called for revision of NATO. "The Atlantic alliance originally was drafted in a certain context which has now changed. For one thing, access to space pre­sents us with a new battlefield." He also declared that six-nation European Economic Community planned $7 billion nuclear energy de­velopment program over the next 15 years, to include construction of "80 to 90 power stations for the peaceful use of nuclear energy." (O'Toole, NYT, 1/26/64, 17)

• January

1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31

• February