Oct 5 1965
From The Space Library
Aerospace Research Satellite was placed in orbit as a pick-aback satellite on USAF Atlas D missile test from Western Test Range, the satellite entering the first highly retrograde orbit, Orbital data: apogee, 2,141 mi. (3,447 km,) ; perigee, 255 mi. (410.6 km.) ; period, 125.7 min.; inclination, 144.3°, Carrying onboard instruments to map and monitor energetic particles, mass spectrometers, detectors imbedded in radiation shield, and instruments measuring dose rates in tissue-equivalent medium, the satellite successfully returned data. (U.S. Aeron, & Space Act., 1965, 152; AP, Wash. Eve, Star, 10/6/65)
USAF launched Thor-Agena D launch vehicle from Western Test Range with unidentified satellite. (U.S. Aeron. & Space Act, 1965, 152)
At NASA Hq. Annual Honors Ceremony, Dr. T. Keith Glennan, first NASA Administrator, said: "Mine was the relatively easy task of putting together an organization, Yours has been the much more difficult task of making good the promises we held out, at times so naively, to the Congress and the people of this Nation and the world. But handling these heavy responsibilities cannot be the duty of just one man, or a small group of men at the top. "This Agency's success attests to the skill with which NASA employees have been and are carrying out their jobs... To all of you and to the thousands of NASA people working at their tasks at whatever location throughout this nation and the world, I am proud to say-well done! And I am confident that the hard won leadership position you have attained will be maintained throughout the years ahead." (Text)
NASA Administrator Webb presented Exceptional Scientific Achievement Awards to H. Julian Allen, Ames Research Center; Leslie H. Meredith and William Nordberg, GSFC; Dan Schneiderman and Eberhardt Rechtin, JPL, Smith J. DeFrance, Ames Research Center, and Bruce T, Lundin, LRC, received Outstanding Leadership Medals, Associate Administrator Dr. Robert C. Seamans, Jr., presented Exceptional Service Medals to John R. Cassani, JPL; Seymour C. Himmel, LRC; and William Lilly, Hq. He presented Group Achievement Awards to the Agena Project, LRC; Florida Operations Team, KSC; Launch Support Equipment Engineering Div, KSC; and Scout Project Office, LARC. Seventeen thirty-year service awards were presented by Earl D. Hilburn, Deputy Associate Administrator. (NASA Release 65-315)
Tass reported that Crimean Astrophysical Observatory of the Soviet Academy of Sciences had photographed LUNA VII moon probe with 2.6-meter telescope, largest in U.S.S.R. and Europe. Photographic method used made it possible to obtain an image of the object in motion in the form of a chain of three dots. This made it easier to distinguish the object from weak stars, Photographs would help to determine LUNA VII orbit with greater precision. (Tass, 10/5/65)
ComSatCorp invited 20 construction companies to bid on site preparation for the Brewster Flat, Wash, earth station. Expected to cost approximately $6 million, the station would be a U.S. link in a worldwide commercial communications satellite system. (ComSatCorp Release)
Machinist union members at Boeing Co, installations throughout the country voted to accept a new contract and end their 19-day-old strike against Boeing Co., announced Charles F. West, the union's general vice president. Under the contract, IAM would be free to strike again after six months if agreement were not reached on performance analysis-system by which the company graded employees for promotion, demotion, or discharge. (AP, Phil, Eve, Bull., 10/5/65; Wash. Post, 10/5/65)
USAF officials closely associated with the manned orbital laboratory (MOL) program denied a published report that the Central Intelligence Agency had requested control of the program, reported Missile Space Daily. They said the report that a USAF-CIA disagreement over control of MOL had delayed President Johnson's August 25 announcement of the program was "without foundation." (M/S Daily, 10/5/65)
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