Aug 6 1964
From The Space Library
NASA and Dept of Health, Education and Welfare announced cooperative one-year research project to study anti-cancer, carcinogenic, and anti-radiation potential of certain chemical compounds closely related to plant growth regulators. Project would extend studies made at North American Aviation's Space and Information Systems Div. in NASA research program to protect man in space. To be conducted at sun under $198,185 contract with HEW's Public Health Service, project would be directed by PHS National Cancer Institute and financed through a transfer of funds by NASA as part of its Technology Utilization program. (NASA Release 64-190)
Nike-Cajun sounding rocket with upper atmosphere grenade experiment was launched from Wallops Island to 73-mi. altitude, and series of 12 grenades was ejected and detonated at intervals from 23- to 58-mi. altitude. Experiment was coordinated with similar grenade shot from Sweden's Kronogard Range (81-mi. peak altitude) and with another experiment launched there on a Nike-Apache rocket to measure noctilucent clouds (77-mi. peak altitude). These launchings marked beginning of third series of grenade experiments conducted by NASA GSFC from Wallops Island, Fort Churchill Research Range, and Ascension Island, with Sweden joining the group for this series. The Fort Churchill and Ascension Island launchings were canceled because of weather conditions. (Wallops Release 64-59; NASA Rpt. SRL)
Black Knight rocket was fired at Woomera Rocket Range in U.K.-U.S.-Australia Project Dazzle. Minister of Supply Allen Fairhall said the rocket reached 370-mi. altitude, where second stage rocket ignited to drive instrumented re-entry package back through the atmosphere. (Reuters, Houston Post, 8/7/64)
Research in extrasensory perception as a means of communication with astronauts on space flights was advocated by Harold Sherman, President and Executive Director of ESP Research Associates Foundation, Little Rock, Ark. Speaking in Los Angeles, Sherman said: "It is entirely feasible for the Air Force to experiment in the training of astronauts to transmit and receive thoughts and, in this connection, a battery of "sensitives,' who can communicate with them on a two-way basis while they are traveling through space." (L. A. Herald-Examiner, 8/6/64)
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