Nov 10 1964
From The Space Library
NASA launched its first pair of ship-to-shore sodium vapor cloud experiments aboard Nike-Apache sounding rockets, one at 5 :25 p.m. EST from a launcher on the deck of the USNS Croatan, located about 75 mi. off shore south of Wallops Island, Va., the second at 5:28 p.m. EST from a pad on Wallops Island. The payloads ejected sodium vapor trails up to an altitude of approximately 123 mi. Purpose was to study variations in wind conditions occurring at different altitudes and locations and to test shipboard equipment and procedures. Ground cameras photographed dispersion of the sodium trails, permitting scien-tists to measure wind velocities and directions from the photographic records. (Wallops Release 64-83 ; NASA Rpt. NASA Nike-Apache sounding rocket with French sodium-vapor payload was launched from India's Thumba Range to about 192-km. altitude (about 119 mi.) . Two ground camera stations photographed sodium vapor released from the rocket to obtain measurements of atmospheric winds, turbulence, and diffusivity. (NASA Rpt. SaL)
At the conclusion today of a test in which four men whirled for five days in a centrifuge, Dr. Bernard D. Newsom, Chief of Aerospace Medicine at General Dynamics/Astronautics in San Diego, Calif., announced that they had adapted so well it appeared there may be no human problem in spinning future spacecraft to create artificial gravity. "We are ex-tremely encouraged with the results," he said, but he cautioned that more research is necessary before decisions could be made on the basic goal of the experiment-to determine if spacemen can adapt to live and work for long periods in a rotating environment (LA. Times, 11/11/64; Wash. Post, 11/11/64)
Speaking at the dedication of a monument at Cape Kennedy honoring Project Mercury and the nation's seven original astronauts, Dr. Edward C. Welsh, Acting Chairman and Executive Secretary of the National Aeronautics and Space Council said: "Mercury served to lift the self-respect of our nation when it badly needed such a boost I know that we still have widespread public support of our national space programs in spite of the criticism of some short-sighted individuals." (NYT, 11/11/64, 48; AP, Balt. Sun, 11/9/64; Rossiter, UPI, Miami Herald, 11/11/64)
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