Sep 27 1965
From The Space Library
Six rhesus monkeys exposed to a total radiation of 500 rads during a 10-day simulated space flight experienced no performance decrement, reported Heather M. Davis in Missiles and Rockets, Radiation was administered at rate of 2 rads per hour from an 80-curie gamma radiation source at the Los Alamos Scientific Laboratory. Thirty-day physical examinations just conducted showed the animals were still in good health. (David, M&R, 9/27/65, 38)
U.S. Army's Nike-X Project Office at Redstone Arsenal announced appointment of Dr. Oswald H. Lange as Chief Scientist and Charles E. Richardson as Chief Engineer, Lange was returning to the Army after more than five years with NASA Marshall Space Flight Center, where he directed the Saturn Vehicle project and for the past two years was assistant MSFC director for scientific and technical analysis, Richardson was formerly chief of the Nike-X Project's Test and Range Operations Div. (Marshall Star, 9/29/65, 1)
GSFC was pushing Aerobee 350 sounding rocket toward operational status to get second- and third-generation upper altitude data, wrote William S. Beller in Missiles and Rockets: "With much of the first-generation work already performed in the altitudes from about 50 mi. to 100 mi., a more sophisticated rocket is needed. ... "The Aerobee 350 shows more than twice the performance of the 150: for heavy payloads, the factor tends toward 2.5, showing the most significant advantage; for lighter payloads, the factor approaches 2.0, "The Aerobee 350 launched from Wallops Island will carry a payload of 150 lbs. to 290 mi. altitude; or 500 lbs, to 210 mi. If the launching takes place at White Sands, N.M, which is at 4,000 ft., the rocket will put out 15-20 mi, more altitude performance for the same payload weight. An Aerobee 350 launch tower is to be built at White Sands." (Beller, M&R, 9/27/65, 26)
Philco Corp. had been awarded a $3 million increment to a contract with USAF for work on a satellite tracking network. (DOD Release 651-65)
S-IC-1, first stage of the Saturn V booster, rolled out of the Manufacturing Engineering Lab at MSFC exactly on schedule. The stage was ASTRONAUTICS AND AERONAUTICS, 1965 451 moved to the Quality and Reliability Assurance Lab where it would be checked out automatically in preparation for static firings. (MSFC Release 65-239)
USAF named Robert G. Loewy chairman of the U.S. Air Force Scientific Advisory Board. (Hussie, Phil. Inq, 9/26/65)
ComSatCorp asked FCC for permission to make available service via EARLY BIRD I outside of normal hours to permit transatlantic televising of Pope Paul VI's visit to the U.S. October 4. The Corporation normally could offer its services between 5 a.m. and 9 p.m. daily ; it was seeking to extend them from 9 p.m. to 5 a.m. during the papal visit. (ComSatCorp Release)
Potential of a manned orbiting vehicle to obtain advanced photographic and electromagnetic intelligence on Soviet ICBM defenses, on Russian deployment of new smaller solid propellant ICBMs, and on Chinese progress toward a strategic missile force was suggested by Aviation Week and Space Technology as being significant factor behind Defense Secretary Robert S. McNamara's decision to proceed with manned military space missions. It was photographic evidence provided by Samos, shortly after McNamara had come to the Pentagon, that had enabled the U.S. to determine that the Russians were not building and deploying ICBMs as fast as had been believed and which had allowed McNamara to establish more modest missile production goals. (Av. Wk., 9/27/65, 26)
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