Apr 26 1964
From The Space Library
NASA Associate Administrator Dr. Robert C. Seamans said Soviet spacecraft ZOND I apparently was traveling on a Venus trajectory. Dr. Seamans was speaking on Mutual Broadcasting Systems, Inc., radio program "Reporters Roundup." Asked why he thought ZOND I was a Venus probe, he said that he understood USSR had identified it as such and that "this payload is traveling in that direction." Also, he added, the firing occurred "at the right time for a Venus launch." (AP, Wash. Eve. Star, 4/27/64; AP, Wash. Post, 4/27/64)
NASA Deputy Administrator Dr. Hugh L. Dryden said in address before National University Extension Association in Washington: "The exploration of space is a continuation of the geographical exploration by man of unknown areas of the earth from the days of the Phoenician mariners three thousand years ago. The New World, the polar regions, the depths of the ocean, the limits of the atmosphere-have each in turn been the temporary god. Space is the new frontier. . . . "We have as a nation accepted the challenge of the new frontier, and this year are spending a little more than five billion dollars on the exploration of space for peaceful purposes. This represents an expenditure of approximately 50 cents per Week by each of the 200 million inhabit-ants of our country. . ." (Text)
NASA announced 1964-65 Alfred P. Sloan Fellowships in executive development were awarded to three NASA employees: Walter C. Scott, Chief of Chemical and Solar Power Generation Branch in Office of Advanced Research and Technology; Edward J. Lievens, Jr., member of Technical Staff, Plans and Analysis, in Office of Manned Space Flight; and Neal A. Holmberg, Aerospace Technology Program Manager at NASA Western Operations Office. (NASA Release 64-94)
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