May 22 1967
From The Space Library
Cosmos CLXI was launched by U.S.S.R. into orbit with 343-km (213-mi) apogee, 205-km (127-mi) perigee, 89.8-min period, and 65.7° inclination. Equipment functioned normally. Satellite reentered May 30. (AP, W Post, 5/23/67, A9; GSFC SSR, 5/31/67)
USAF launched two unidentified satellites by Atlas-Agena D boosters from WTFL One satellite reentered on May 27; other reentered May 30. (UPI, W Post, 5/23/67, A9; Pres Rep 1967; GSFC SSR, 5/31/67)
France and Quebec had agreed on joint use of a comsat for transmission of French radio and television programs to the French-speaking areas of Canada, Quebec's Premier Daniel Johnson disclosed at a Paris press conference. (NYT, 5/23/67,77)
The time had to come to end the "belabored post-mortems of the Apollo fire" and to restore confidence in the Apollo program, William Coughlin suggested in Technology Week. "NASA certainly has its faults, particularly in the quality control area. But we believe that the overall record of the Apollo 204 probe offers some inspiration for confidence in NASA management. It takes a great deal of integrity to give an accident review board full freedom and support when the outcome can only be critical of those setting up the board-and NASA provided that freedom and support. It then takes courage to stand up and disagree with some of the findings of the board-and NASA did that. The Phillips report, damaging as it was, also was testimony that NASA had been on top of the problems at North American and was making progress in solving them. . "Confidence in Apollo must be restored and the program allowed to move ahead, without undue restriction, on its new lunar schedule. "Anything less will diminish the sacrifice made by three brave men." (Coughlin, Tech Wk, 5/22/67,58)
Cosmos, Minn.-a community of 560-had given all its streets astronomical names such as Mars, Jupiter, PEGASUS, and Comet. (AP, NYT, 5/22/67)
Dr. J. Herbert Hollomon, Acting Under Secretary of Commerce and Assistant Secretary of Commerce for Science and Technology, had been appointed President of Oklahoma Univ., effective Sept. 1. (AP, NYT, 5/23/67,32)
USAF F-111A jet aircraft was flown from Loring AFB, Me., to Le Bourget Airfield, France, for display at the Paris International Air and Space Show. (UPI, NYT, 5/23/67,77)
May 22-23: Vice President Hubert H. Humphrey, accompanied by NASC Executive Secretary Dr. Edward C. Welsh, toured MSFC and US. Army Missile Command (AMC) at Redstone Arsenal. During his visit, the Vice President watched a full-duration static-firing of an Uprated Saturn I 1st stage which lasted 145.6 sec. (Marshall Star, 5/24/67, 1)
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