Sep 11 1965
From The Space Library
The White House announced that Astronauts Leroy Gordon Cooper and Charles Conrad, Jr., would leave Sept, 15 on a six-nation goodwill tour to Greece, Turkey, Ethiopia, Madagascar, Kenya, and Nigeria. The astronauts would be accompanied by their wives, Cooper's daughters, Dr. Charles A. Berry, chief surgeon for the astronauts, and President Johnson's Army aide, Maj. Hugh Robinson. (Pomfret, NYT, 9/12/65, 1, 33)
NASA awarded $900,000 facilities grant to Univ. of Denver for construction of Space Sciences Laboratories building. (NASA Release 65-289)
The possible implications of President Johnson's decision to develop a Manned Orbiting Laboratory were discussed by Raymond Senter in The New Republic: "President Johnson's decision to allow the Air Force to build and launch five manned orbital laboratories (L), at a cost of $1.5 billion or more, is likely to increase tensions between the US and the USSR and to spark a similar military space program by the Russians, If so, the Air Force will certainly urge further escalation of its own military space program, raising the specter that space will become a fantastically expensive battlefield of the future... "It is, however, possible that MOL will demonstrate the feasibility of a few American and Soviet spacemen in their respective spacecraft operating a continuous space watch, If it does, and if both nations exercise restraint, it could have a stabilizing effect, as have our mutual unmanned reconnaissance satellites, If man can be an efficient observer in orbit for extended periods, the time may come when the U.S. should invite the United Nations to maintain a continuous space patrol, with a multi-national crew, to warn of any impending or surprise attack." (Senter. The New Republic, 9/11/65, 9)
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