Jun 9 1964
From The Space Library
George M. Low, NASA SC deputy director, said all pilots in Projects Gemini and Apollo would be astronauts trained by NASA for its own manned space projects. Brig. Gem Bleymaier (USAF), in inter-views at Houston, had previously said he thought pilots selected by SAF, whose MOL project he heads, would participate in Apollo and Gemini in order to acquire experience for the MOL project. Without NASA training for its astronauts, USAF would have to orbit its men without previous space flight experience or launch its own Gemini training flights. (Maloney, Houston.Post, 6/10/64; Houston.Chron,, 6/10/64)
Managing underwriters of ComSatCorp's 10-million-share public offering at $20 a share announced the offering was oversubscribed and the books closed. Thus ComSatCorp had enough money to launch the fleet of satellites that was expected to be handling global communications by 1967. (WSJ, 6/9/64; NYT, 6/12/64, 47)
A new British jet, the Hawker-Siddeley DH-125, was expected to be the first of five new models of aircraft to get government approval for use as a private passenger carrier. The new small jets were being built for the business executive market The British plane was to cost $750,000 and fly about 500 mph. (NYT, 6/9/64)
Soviet Ministry of Defense said Pentagon was spying on Russian military and space installations in Moscow, via radio and radar monitoring stations on borders of U.S.S.R. and other Socialist nations and satel-lites. Allegation called for increased Soviet vigilance against such "espionage." American embassy in Moscow called statement "non-sense." (NYT, 6/11/64, 10)
AFSC reported completion of a portable hydrogen-fire detector, for use with the volume of hydrogen anticipated with future space boosters. The unit detected ultraviolet radiation emanating from invisible hydro-gen flame. (AFSC Release 43-89-67)
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