Mar 30 1965
From The Space Library
A copper-plated 461A-lb. "minilab," instrumented to measure radiation variations in the earth's magnetic field, was launched to 8,700-mi, altitude from Cape Kennedy on a four-stage Blue Scout Jr. rocket. It carried three sensing devices designed to produce a radiation profile during its two-hour climb into the Van Allen radiation belt and the two-hour plunge back through the earth's atmosphere to the Indian Ocean. (UPI, NYT, 3/31/65; U.S. Aeron. & Space Act, 1965, 138)
Emergency landing of VOSKHOD II was the third such failure in the Soviet space program, according to an unidentified Czechoslovak scientist, member of the Astronautic Commission of the Czechoslovak Academy of Sciences, during a panel discussion on Radio Prague, He said there had been two earlier failures in the unmanned Vostoks. The disclosure was made in reply to a listener's letter. (NYT, 4/1/65, 6)
Gemini GT-3 Astronauts Grissom and Young were feted as heroes in Chicago, where they motorcaded from O'Hare International Airport through the city to City Hall. An estimated one million thronged the streets shouting joyous ovations and flinging a deluge of tickertape and confetti. At luncheon with city officials the astronauts were given honorary Chicago citizenship medallions, and later a reception was given in their honor. Accompanying the astronauts were members of their families and NASA Deputy Administrator Dr. Hugh L. Dryden and Mrs, Dryden. (Wiedrich, Chic. Trib., 3/31/65)
Dr. Harold Brown, Director of Defense Research and Engineering, appeared before the House Appropriations Committee's Subcommittee on DOD Appropriations, in testimony supporting DOD's request for $6.709 billion new obligational authority for FY 1966 research, development, testing, and evaluation, He discussed the Vela nuclear detection satellites, orbiting in nearly circular orbits, "All four satellites remain in operation, providing data on the radiation background and the operation of detectors in space," He outlined the AACB's 1964 launch vehicle study, which "was intended to identify overall effects and provide a data base for, rather than to resolve, individual user program booster selections or near-term booster improvement questions." The study "confirmed earlier estimates" of launch vehicle needs for the near future. [See Jan, 26, Jan, 27] (DOD Appropriations Hearings [Part 5], 1-30)
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