Aug 30 1965
From The Space Library
GEMINI V astronauts Cooper and Conrad flew to Kennedy Space Center, NASA, following a night onboard the aircraft carrier Lake Champlain. Upon their arrival, Florida Governor Haydon Burns presented them with plaques in recognition of the record-setting, eight-day mission, Intensive medical examinations begun on the carrier were continued on Merritt Island. (Toth, Wash. Post, 8/31/65; Clark, NYT, 8/31/65)
The appropriateness of President Johnson's comments on the achievements of Astronauts Cooper and Conrad during the GEMINI V spaceflight was discussed editorially in the New York Times: "He did not gloat over the evident Soviet discomfiture at the United States forging ahead in the space race. Nor did he follow the repeated Soviet practice of claiming that a particular achievement in the cosmos somehow `proved' the superiority of one political system over another, Instead, he appealed to all nations to join together for the conquest of space, an arena in which cooperation could help ease world tensions. ". , the President's statement ... should help to dispel ... fears, He has made clearer than ever that this country sincerely wants full cooperation in space. If Gemini V's flight helps to bring that objective closer, its immediate political contribution will rival its enormous gains for science and for technology." (NYT, 8/30/65, 24C)
MARINER IV spacecraft took and recorded 10½ photographs of black space on command from the Goldstone Tracking Station in California, Playback of five of the black-space pictures began on command. MARINER IV now was more than 171 million miles from earth, 11 million miles from Mars. (JPL Release)
NASA Manned Spacecraft Center had developed a 175-lb. scoop attachment for helicopters' rescue and recovery operations. The device consisted of a retractable rigid boom of tubular aluminum and a plastic-covered wire net, both attached to the forward section of the helicopter. Use of the boom would enable the pilot to keep the subject in view at all times and would eliminate the need for a crew member to leave the helicopter to help secure the object being recovered-the net would scoop it up. (NASA Release 65-283)
NASA had already received 170 suggested experiments for Voyager-the largest response to any scientific satellite program NASA had conducted, reported Aviation Week and Space Technology, NASA would refine the experiments in consultation with the originators by November 19; preliminary selection would be made by March, and final one by July. (Av, Wk, 8/30/65, 21)
NASA would negotiate with Ball Brothers Research Corp. an approximate $12-million contract for procurement of three additional Orbiting Solar Observatory (OSO) spacecraft, bringing to eight the number of satellites contracted for in the OSO series. (NASA Release 65-282)
Aerospace engineers hired by California to study the state's crime problem recommended a five-year effort to make crime fighting more efficient, Report was prepared by Space-General Corp, under a $100,000 contract, California had ordered four such reports on the assumption that analytical methods used in setting up aerospace and defense systems could be applied to social problems. (WSJ, 8/30/65, 1; Davies, NYT, 8/30/65, 35)
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