Sep 23 1965
From The Space Library
Four-stage Javelin (Argo D-4) sounding rocket with an ionosphere experiment was launched by NASA from Wallops Station, Va. The 138-lb. payload reached 495-mi. (797-km,) altitude and impacted 625 mi. downrange in the Atlantic Ocean. Primary objectives of the flight were to measure ion and electron densities and temperatures in the upper atmosphere. Launch was timed to coincide with a pass of the Canadian ALOUETTE satellite; measurements would be compared with those of the satellite and with ground-based ionosonde measurements. (Wallops Release 65-60)
Soviet Union launched COSMOS XCI unmanned earth satellite, carrying instrumentation designed to continue the space exploration program begun March 16, 1962, Orbital parameters: apogee, 341 km. (212 mi.) ; perigee, 211 km. (131 mi,) ; period, 89.8 min.; inclination, 65°. Apparatus was functioning normally. (Komsomolskaya Pravda, 9/24/65, 1)
NASA would negotiate a contract with the Bendix Field Engineering Corp. to provide operations and maintenance support for portions of the Space Tracking and Data Acquisition Network ( STADAN ) facilities over a two-year period from Oct, 1, 1965, through Sept, 30, 1967. Total cost was estimated at $25 million. (NASA Release 65-305)
Contrasting the "image" of U.S. and U.S.S.R. at Sept, 13-18 IAF Congress, William Hines said: "Whether through the Russians' skill at brainwashing or our own ineptitude, we emerged as the rocket rattlers and they as the peace lovers. . . ." (Hines, Wash. Eve, Star, 9/23/65)
GEMINI V Astronauts Leroy Gordon Cooper, Jr, and Charles Conrad, Jr, were lost briefly over Kenya while flying a small aircraft to Keekerok Game Lodge to visit President Jomo Kenyatta. With Cooper at the controls, they landed at Keekerok only 20 min. late. (AP, Balt. Sun, 9/24/65)
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