May 2 1967
From The Space Library
NASA Assistant Administrator for Policy Analysis Gen. Jacob E. Smart (USAF, Ret.) received National Aerospace Services Assn.'s Quarter Century award for "outstanding contributions to aerospace advancement" and continuing leadership and service in NASA. (Natl Aero Serv Assn; Av Wk, 5/8/67,13)
Turbulence-measuring device developed at U.S. Weather Bureau's National Storms Laboratory in Norman, Okla., might be used by US. airports in 1968 to guide commercial airline pilots through severe and moderate turbulence areas, Martin Waldron reported in New York Times. Device measured severity of thunderstorms by analyzing and averaging radar pulses reflected from cells within the storm and then registered cloud structure on a radar scope. Data were relayed to pilots by flight controllers on the ground. Chief of U.S. Weather Bureau's radar systems section Stewart Bigler said a refined version of the device had been installed at Washington, D.C., National Airport in January and would be tested in June. If it performed satisfactorily, similar devices would be installed in other U.S. airports in 1968. (Waldron, NYT, 5/4/67,51)
Washington Post editorial criticized suggestion by nuclear physicist Dr. Edward Teller that nuclear explosions be used to provide data about moon's interior: "Speaking for a multitude of laymen, we want our moon left intact. If not many farmers are left who do their planting by the times of the moon, at least all of us like to remember moonlit nights when we were not thinking of nuclear fission. . . . If Dr. Teller wants to dig another Isthmian Canal with `a small nuclear explosive,' we might consider that within the range of our needs. But let our moon alone. We look forward once again to sitting in the moonlight on a summer's night and smelling honeysuckle without the thought that a chunk of moon might blast off suddenly into another orbit." (W Post, 5/2/67)
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