Sep 12 1968

From The Space Library

Institute for Strategic Studies in London issued report, "The Military Balance," which said U.S.S.R. had rushed construction of land-based ICBMs and now had almost as many as U.S. By end of 1968 Soviet total was expected to reach U.S. total of 1,054. (Shuster, NYT, 9/13/68, 9)

Slide-wire escape way, 1,200-ft-long, from 215-ft level to ground at KSC Complex 34 was declared man-rated following tests by five dummies and five men. Slide wire was designed as last means of escape from top of Saturn IB gantry for astronauts and close-out crews if emergency should shut off other routes. (Spaceport News, 9/12/68, 1)

NASA Associate Administrator for Manned Space Flight, Dr. George E. Mueller, told World Affairs Council in Pittsburgh, Pa.: "The U.S. space program was undertaken in 1958, and accelerated by three Presi­dents and six Congresses who considered it basic to our national strength and essential to our continued leadership of the Free World. It is . . . significant to note that this has been a bipartisan effort, with Republican as well as Democratic support. . . . Space expenditures contribute significantly to the national power of the United States in a world where military and economic security increasingly rest upon technology." U.S. space program "has been deliberately oriented to­ward cooperation with other countries. It is providing opportunities for foreign scientists to contribute and develop their talents and, at the same time, gives other nations a chance to share not only in the pub­lished results of space research, but in the accomplishment of these achievements as well. . . ." (Text)

Senate adopted S.R. 391, changing assignments of minority Senators to standing committees. Measure excused Senators Edward W. Brooke (R-Mass.) and Charles H. Percy (R-Ill.) from Senate Committee on Aeronautical and Space Sciences and assigned Senators Mark O. Hat- field (R-Ore.) and Charles E. Goodell (R-N.Y.) to Committee. (NASA LAR VII/90)

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