Sep 13 1964
From The Space Library
U.S.S.R. launched COSMOS XLV into orbit, carrying scientific equipment to continue the space research program begun in March 1962. Initial parameters reported for the satellite's orbits: apogee, 327 km. (203.067 mi.); perigee, 206 km. (127.926 mi.); period, 89.69 min.; inclination, 64°54'. (AP, NYT, 9/14/64; FonF, XXIV, 313)
Rep. Olin E. Teague (D.-Tex.) was quoted in World Book Encyclopedia Science Service article as saying NASA's Apollo three-man spacecraft could be modified for military missions to: orbit earth for two to-three months with more than 21/2 tons of weapons or reconnaissance equipment by 1967; move from equatorial orbit to polar orbit, surveying earth every 24 hrs.; survey a single strategic portion of the globe from a stationary 24-kr. orbit; carry six 500-lb. rocket packages, adaptable to containing nuclear weapons. "If we do not succeed in developing . . . [such] military potential for Apollo, it will be because of lack of funding and direction, and not because of technical problems," he said. ". . our ability to defend ourselves in the future and thus our whole future is tied up in space." (SciServ, Houston Chron., 9/13/64)
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