Jun 16 1968

From The Space Library

Astronauts Joseph P. Kerwin, Vance D. Brand, and Joe H. Engle began 177-hr simulated space journey with Apollo 2TV-1 model space­craft inside giant vacuum chamber at MSC, to prove spacecraft struc­ture and inner pressure vessel and verify Apollo's environmental con­trol system in temperature and vacuum extremes. (West, H Chron, 6/17/68; H Post, 6/18/68, 2; NAR Skywriter, 6/21/68, 1)

NASA and France's Office National d'Etudes et de Recherches Aérospatiales (ONERA) had agreed on cooperative research project on tilt-ro- tors for vertical-flying aircraft. Data were expected to assist in design of rotors and propellers for V/STOL aircraft. NASA would provide rotors, hardware, and instrumentation for tests, minimum engineering support, and basic computations of structural strength; ONERA would conduct tests in Modane, France, wind tunnel at no cost to NASA. (NASA Release 68-104)

Pearl I. Young, first woman technical employee of National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics, died at age 72 in Hampton, Va. Author of technical editing manual used throughout NASA, head of NASA technical editing staffs at LaRC and LeRC for 28 yr, and engineering teacher for 12 yr, Miss Young had retired from NASA in 1961 and at time of her death was completing a biography of Octave Chanute. (Newport News Daily Press, 6/17/68; W Star, 6/18/68, B4; Denver Post, 6/23/68, 33)

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