Mar 3 1965
From The Space Library
NASA's PEGASUS I meteoroid-detecting satellite recorded 19 wing punctures in its 3 to 4 million mi. travels. Earth-transmitted electronic signals might have been the cause of several recorded hits, but some were definitely meteoroid particles. PEGASUS I orbited the earth every 97 min. (AP, NYT, 3/4/65, 50; AP, Wash. Post, 3/4/65)
NASA, at DOD's request, had halted Syncom II's westward drift at 68° east longitude over the Indian Ocean. Under the direction of project managers at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center, the command signals had been sent from the Syncom station in Salisbury, Australia, beginning Feb. 20 and ending Feb. 24. No future major locational corrections were anticipated; SYNCOM II should remain in same general area indefinitely. (NASA Release 65-72)
NASA Administrator James E. Webb said at a press conference held in conjunction with the NASA University Program Review Conference in Kansas City, Mo., that the space research program would cost $35 billion over a ten-year period. At the end of that time, NASA expected to have accomplished (1) 12 to 15 flights of the Saturn V. (2) 5,000 hrs. of astronaut flight time, and (3) the capability of lifting 240,000 lbs. from the earth and orbiting 90,000 lbs. (Kansas City Times, 3/3/65)
Gen. Bernard A. Schriever (USAF), addressing American Management Assn. conference in New York City, announced recent approval and initiation of USAF Spacecraft Technology and Advanced Reentry Tests program (Start), "a four-fold research spacecraft program to develop unmanned test vehicles capable of maneuvering to a precision recovery site after reentering from orbit," In a Baltimore Sun editorial, Albert Sehlstedt, Jr., said that the Martin Co. had designed for this program a new, wingless V-shaped plane, maneuverable in atmosphere because its shape would provide aerodynamic lift. The program would: (1) launch the SV-5 by Atlas booster. (2) continue Asset experiments to test vehicles entering atmosphere at very high speeds. (3) study effects of vehicles passing through atmosphere at slower speeds, and (41 relate to allied studies that had not yet led to specific designs for identifiable reentry vehicles. (Text; AFSC Release 31.65; Sehlstedt, Balt. Sun, 3/4/65;)
Rep. J. Edward Roush (D-Ind.), addressing the House, cited the 1965 National Science Foundation Report to the House Subcommittee on Science, Research and Development of the House Committee on Science and Astronautics, which pointed out the heavy concentration of Government research contracts in New York, California, and Massachusetts. "One-half of the 50 states have 96.78 percent of all the funds listed for the various States. The remaining 3.22 percent is shared by the other 25 states," the report continued. Roush maintained that more equitable distribution of Federal funds would alleviate economic depression in many areas. (CR, 3/3/65, 3895)
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