Apr 21 1964
From The Space Library
NASA launched Aerobee 150 sounding rocket from White Sands, N. Mex., with instrumental payload to obtain evidence of hypervelocity micrometeoroid impacts, samples of low-velocity cosmic dust, and measurements of electron densities. Flight failed when' rocket's propulsion system malfunctioned and the rocket attained only 6.25-mi. altitude. (NASA Rpt. SRL)
NASA announced Walter L. Lingle, Jr., Deputy Associate Administrator, was leaving NASA May 15 to return to private industry. Lingle would be succeeded by Earl D. Hilburn, Deputy Associate Administrator for Industry Affairs. (NASA Release 64-90)
Rep. Joseph E. Karth (D.-Minn.) addressed the National Space Club in Washington: "The great promise for the future of the space and defense industry is to turn some of the tremendous imagination, some of the talents and energies of your management, your scientists and engineers, to the major social and economic problems of our country. "Your industries, I submit, are eminently qualified to cooperate in this entirely different kind of takeoff because of your unique experience in solving inter-disciplinary problems through the technique of systems analysis. . . ." Emphasizing that "space is not a WPA program," he said he would not support accelerated space expenditures merely to stimulate the econ-omy depressed by reduction in defense spending because of disarmament. (NSC Release)
Rep. Roman C Pucinski (D.-Ill.), Chairman of House Subcommittee on National Research Data Processing and Information Retrieval Center, wrote in Washington Daily News article: "The greatest challenge in this changing world is the solution of the problem of handling scientific and technical information. "I am deeply concerned with the staggering acceleration of scientific and technical information which is the life-blood in the heart of our research and development effort. . . "I am convinced somewhere in the mountainous scientific literature there is a cure for cancer, a solution for harnessing limitless energy from nuclear fusion and a way to solve the food requirement of a growing world population." (Wash. Daily News, 4/21/64)
Rep. John Brademas (D.-Ind.) inserted in Congressional Record an editorial on Rep. J. Edward Roush's proposal that NASA establish a Midwestern office, broadcast by station WOWO: ". . . . We agree with Congressman Roush that if it is in the best interests of NASA to operate liaison offices to aid potential contractors in securing NASA business, then every area of the United States should qualify for this aid. . . ." (CR, 4/21/64, A1998-99)
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