Nov 27 1965
From The Space Library
Soviet Union launched COSMOS XCVIII unmanned satellite with "scientific apparatus to continue space investigations," Tass announced. Orbital data: apogee, 570 km. (354 mi,) ; perigee, 216 km. (134 mi.) ; period, 92 min.; inclination, 65°. Equipment was functioning normally. (Pravda, 11/28/65, 4)
A-I, France's 88-lb. first satellite, continued orbiting, but its radio signals had become weaker. Telemetry analysis indicated part of the difficulty was damage to the antennas at launch Nov, 26 from Hammaguir Range, Algeria. (AP, Wash. Eve, Star, 11/27/65, A2; Reuters, Balt, Sun, 12/28/65, 6)
With a direct $40,000 grant from NASA, the Staten Island Public Health Hospital was using convicts for a research program entitled "The Effects of Acute Heat Stress and Simulated Weightlessness." According to Warden Frank Kenton of the Federal Correctional Institution, Danbury, Conn., which supplied the men, those who had volunteered for the project were minimum risks and were carefully screened before selection was made, "It's a good break for these fellows. They get a $25 honorarium, three days off their sentences, an opportunity to get out of prison for a while, and a change in routine and surroundings." (NYT, 11/27/65, 32)
Figures compiled by NASA indicated that since Jan. 1, 1964, 75 work stoppages had cost more than 92,000 man days of work, mostly at Kennedy Space Center, Associated Press reported. (AP, NYT, 11/28/ 65, 4)
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