Aug 27 1965
From The Space Library
At the Seventh International Conference on Phenomena in Ionized Gases in Belgrade, NASA Lewis Research Center scientist Charles M. Goldstein outlined the effect of collisions on a monoenergetic electronbeam current in the presence of a low-density neutral scattering gas, Research had been conducted in connection with electromagnetic propulsion studies. (LRC Release 65-56)
Washington Post editorial comment on President Johnson's assignment of the Manned Orbiting Laboratory project to the Air Force: "Anxiety arises out of the Air Force commitment to total secrecy in its space operations... . [NASA] has pursued a brilliantly successful open public information policy. It has made every American a participant in its exciting conquest of space, aroused the national interest in the whole world of science, stirred the youth of the country to enthusiasm and stimulated national pride. The Vandenberg Air Force Base which will become a major site for MOL launching has operated under a veil of secrecy... "The Pentagon has not yet devised a policy for informing the public on the man-in-space MOL project, If it continues the Vandenberg policies of the past, the country is going to know very little about MOL. Such secrecy is bound to arouse international suspicions and alarms, particularly since the flights will be over Soviet territory. Either this is primarily a project in the peaceful penetration of space that requires little secrecy; or it is a secret military project that cannot be reconciled with our previous professions." (Wash. Post, 8/27/65, A23)
Geologist G. J. H. McCall of Univ. of Western Australia said he believed the lunar surface to resemble plastic, and he recommended another Ranger spacecraft be sent to the moon to test his theory, McCall was in Bend, Ore, attending the International Lunar Geological Conference. (AP, San Diego Eve, Trib, 8/27/65)
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