Jul 25 1965
From The Space Library
"Should the MOL blueprint as envisioned by the Air Force's Systems Command be approved by Defense Secretary Robert S. McNamara, the Navy conceivably could be the first to use this earth-orbiting station as a new technique for charting ship movements on all the oceans of the world," wrote Frank Macomber in the San Diego Union. Macomber envisioned "two Navy astronauts ... spinning around the earth as early as 1968 in a 10-foot diameter, 25-foot long orbital laboratory-about the size of a small house trailer filled with electronic detection gear , ." (Macomber, CNS, San Diego Union, 7/25/65, 13)
The Mohole project to drill deep in the ocean floor was described during a seminar at the Institute on Man and Science, Rensselaerville, N.Y., by Dr. Columbus Iselin, former director of the Oceanographic Institute at Woods Hole, Mass. In reply to a question about future humans possibly living in the ocean, he said: "I don't see what you'd accomplish down there. It's cold, dark, and nasty. It's a popular idea but an impractical one." (NYT, 7/26/65, 13)
MARINER IV finished transmitting its 21 photographs of Mars and sent about 10 percent of a 22nd picture before its tape ran out. The later pictures were eagerly awaited by JPL scientists because they should show the dark regions of Mars that some people believed harbor life. The photos were scheduled to be released later this week. ( Wash, Post, 7/25/65, A7)
Pan American World Airways had ordered four Boeing 727-QC (quick change) jet aircraft that could be converted in less than half an hour from an all-cargo plane to a complete passenger aircraft or a passenger-cargo plane. Aircraft would have a passenger capacity of 119; in an all-cargo operation the plane could carry a payload of 41,000 lbs. more than 1,400 mi, Delivery was scheduled for summer 1966. (NYT, 7/26/65, 39M)
During a test of the first of two crawler-transporter vehicles at the Apollo-Saturn V Launch Complex 39 at Cape Kennedy, some failures occurred in the roller bearings which support the tracks. At the time of failure, the crawler was carrying a mobile launch stand. (Miami Herald, 9/30/65)
Caption under a photograph in East German newspaper Berliner Zeitung read: "A model of a future Soviet space station envisages six hermetically grouped sections around a central core. These are: the control station, a laboratory and a garden, an orientation system, the radar equipment, and a heliostation. In addition, the station has facilities for voice communications with space ships." (Berliner Zeitung, 7/25/65, 4)
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