Apr 7 1963
From The Space Library
At Fourth Congress of the World Meteorological Organization, being held in Geneva, U.S. delegation circulated paper describing plans to orbit a Nimbus weather satellite in 1963, the satellite to provide daily photographic observations of the globe. (Reuters, Balt. Sun, 4,/8/63)
Senator Clifford P. Case (R.-N.J.) announced he had requested Secretary of the Air Force Eugene M. Zuckert to investigate the reported USAF memorandum asserting NASA planned to construct facilities which would duplicate those of USAF. (UPI, Wash,. Post, 4/8/63)
In nationally televised interview, Congressman Chet Holifield (D.-Calif.) said that funds for the $20-billion manned lunar program could be better spent in raising living standards on earth on schools, hospitals, housing. Prestige value of landing a man on the moon was not worth the cost. Senator Clinton P. Anderson (D.-N. M.), Chairman of Committee on Aeronautical and Space Sciences, said that even if these funds were not spent for landing a man on the moon, the funds would not be spent on raising living standards. "If we would stop everything we're doing in space tomorrow, I think you would find there would be still plenty of people who would vote no on a program of better roads, better hospitals, better education." (CBS- "Washington Report"; UPI. Wash. Post, 4/9/63)
Recipients of third annual Federal Women's Award were announced. Chosen for "outstanding contributions to the quality and efficiency of the service of the Federal Government, for their influence on major Government programs, and for personal qualities of leadership, judgment, integrity, and dedication," the Six winners included Eleanor C. Pressly, Head of Vehicles Section, Spacecraft Integration and Sounding Rocket Div., NASA Goddard Space Flight Center. Miss Pressly was cited for her pioneer work in sounding rocket development and her "demonstrated organizational ability in scheduling and coordinating launchings of sounding rocket vehicles in support of upper atmospheric research." She developed the Aerobee Jr. sounding rocket, codeveloped Aerobee-Hi 150, and directed improvement of Aerobee Hi 150A, all used extensively in IGY. (FWA Release)
Proposal by NBC to television industry to televise Astronaut Leroy Gordon Cooper's Mercury flight MA-9 in color would not be adopted, Executive Vice President of NBC News William R. McAndrew acknowledged. Proposal had been rejected, science reporter William Hines said, in February by officials of ABC and CBS networks, but NASA had been quietly trying to persuade them to accept, the proposal. (Hines, Wash. Sun. Star, 4/7/63)
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