Oct 7 1965
From The Space Library
Soviet probe LUNA VII was proceeding on course and all onboard systems were functioning normally, Tass announced. Lunar landing was scheduled for October 8 at 6:08 p.m. EDT. (Tass, 10/7/65; AP, Wash, Eve, Star, 10/7/65, 1)
Wright Brothers Medal for 1964 was presented to three NASA LaRC scientists-Marion O. McKinney, Jr, Richard E. Kuhn, and John P. Reeder -at the meeting of the Society of Automotive Engineers in Los Angeles, Cited "for meritorious contribution to aeronautic engineering," the scientists were selected for their paper "Aerodynamics and Flying Qualities of Jet/Vertical Takeoff-Landing and Short Takeoff-Landing Airplanes," presented in 1964 at the SAE-American Society of Mechanical Engineers meeting in New York. (LaRC Release)
At the United Nations, Astronauts James A. McDivitt (L/Col. USAF) and Edward H. White II (L/Col. USAF) presented Secretary General U Thant a small U.N, flag carried by White on his June 4 walk in space. (AP, Wash. Eve, Star, 10/5/65)
FCC approved ComSatCorp's proposal to build a ground station at Brewster Flat, Wash,-a U.S. link in their proposed worldwide communications system. The approval applied only to transmission and receiving facilities; other portions of the application such as ownership of the station and establishment of its links with San Francisco were still under consideration. (Wash, Eve, Star, 10/8/65, A17; WSJ, 10/14/65)
U.S. suspended practice firing of Little John missiles in the foothills of Mt, Fuji at the request of the Japanese government to avoid clashes with about 2,000 farmers demonstrating near the target area. The farmers claimed that practice firing of the Little John, capable of carrying nuclear warheads, would lead to nuclear armament of Japan and would involve Japan in the Vietnam war, Little John was a short range, Army battlefield support missile. (AP, Wash. Eve. Star, 10/6/65, A21; AP, Wash, Eve, Star, 10/7/65, A13)
A projection of the U.S. space program was outlined by Dr. Edward C. Welsh, Executive Secretary of the National Aeronautics and Space Council, at the Building Products Executives Conference in Washington, D.C.: "1. After we have made initial landings on the moon, we will, if conditions warrant, make many other trips to explore the various parts of the lunar surface and possibly to establish one or more bases there. "2. Not only will unmanned probes be sent throughout the solar system, but manned expeditions will visit the planets whenever that becomes scientifically promising and practicable, "3. We will develop a family of useful manned earth-orbiting stations, growing from relatively small orbiting laboratories to large multi-manned permanent stations. Regular ferry service will transfer personnel and supplies to and from such spacecraft, "4. Global communications via satellites will become a fact in the very near future and will be followed by direct broadcast of both voice and TV by satellite to home receivers throughout large sections of the world. "5. Orbiting spacecraft will increase annually in numbers, in size, and in sophistication. Through such activity we will greatly increase our knowledge about the earth as well as about the heavens, "6. We can expect a marriage of the major features of both aeronautics and astronautics ... lifting bodies and winged spacecraft with maneuverable reentry ability will be launched into near and distant space by means of recoverable and re-usable launch vehicles. Drastic reduction in the mileage cost of space travel will result. "7. Spaceports for the coming and going of spacecraft will be built in a number of parts of this country as well as elsewhere, "8. Improved propulsion-faster, more powerful rockets using nuclear as well as chemical energy-will characterize space transportation, Planetary trips which today would take many months will be done in perhaps a week's time or less, while carrying substantial payloads of passengers, equipment, and supplies. And "9. As competence in space increases ... we can expect to see greater economic progress and international cooperation. Then we can truly say that our space efforts have made major contributions to world peace." (Text)
October 7-8: About 700 engineers and scientists attended the Fourth X-15 Technical Conference at NASA Flight Research Center for a technical review of the NASA-USAF X-15 flight research program. Paul F. Bikle, director of FRC, and John S. McCollum, director of New Programs and Research Projects. USAF Aeronautical Systems Div, said future plans for the X-15, not yet approved, included modification to carry experimental hypersonic ramjet engines and study of a new delta-wing configuration, Such changes would provide vital information for future hypersonic aircraft design. The X-15, which had completed more than 150 successful flights since June 1959, had more than doubled the limits of manned flight in winged vehicles, Speed had been increased from about 2,000 mph to more than 4,100 mph. Built for altitudes up to 250,000 ft., the plane had surpassed 300,000-ft, altitudes four times and had reached a maximum of 354,200 ft. (NASA Release 65-318; FRC Release 20-65)
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