Aug 27 1964
From The Space Library
Dr. Robert C. Seamans, Jr., NASA Associate Administrator, visiting NASA Manned Spacecraft Center, said extended manned exploration of the moon "does make considerable sense" as follow-on program to Project Apollo. He said such a program was one of several which NASA would present as possible post-Apollo goals to the President "in approximately a month's time." Other possibilities would include such programs as landing unmanned spacecraft on other planets. (Maloney, Houston Post, 8/28/64)
Venus was found to be rotating backward with a period of between 248 and 258 earth days, Dr. Gordon H. Pettingill of Cornell Univ. reported at IAU assembly in Hamburg. The new value was a refinement of one made in late 1962 by JPL studies, which indicated a rotation of between 239 and 293 (266 mean period) and was obtained by radarastronomers using new 1,000-ft.-diameter antenna at Arecibo, Puerto Rico. (Hines, Wash Eve. Star, 8/27/64; Sullivan, NYT, 8/28/64)
Hurricane Cleo battered Cape Kennedy rocket launching site with gale winds up to 65 mph. Technicians dismantled second stage of Titan II for GT-2 Gemini flight and stored it in hangar, lashed first stage of the Titan II to the pad. No damage was done to the Titan II or other lashed-down rockets. (Wash. Post, 8/28/64; AP, Balt. Sun, 8/29/64)
NASC Executive Secretary Dr. Edward C Welsh said in address at dedication of North American Aviation, Inc., Science Center, James Howard Kindelberger Memorial Laboratories, Thousand Oaks, Calif.: "The whole complex activity of exploring space is important not only because the many private and governmental organizations contributing to space flight are continually uncovering new facts, new products, and new processes which bring immediate benefits to man kind. These benefits are only the beginning. Looking beyond them, we see vast unknown frontiers opening up, with unguessable discoveries yet to be made. Step by step we are conquering the hostile environment of space. We are accumulating new knowledge about the heavenly bodies, and disproving old beliefs about them. "I would emphasize several points about the space program: "First, it is here to stay; "Second, it promises a profitable return on investments in basic research; "Third, it will be an expanding activity, with no finite limits to its potential; "Fourth, it will enhance our national security, stimulate our accumulation of knowledge, improve our standard of living, and further the chances of world peace. . . ." (Text)
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