Jun 9 1967
From The Space Library
USAF launched an experimental reentry vehicle by Atlas-F booster from Vandenberg AFB as part of Advanced Ballistic Re-Entry Systems (ABRES) program. (Tech Wk, 6/19/67,15)
Ground-based optical astronomy had been throttled by lack of large telescopes, especially in southern latitudes, said Director Horace W. Babcock of Mt. Wilson and Palomar Observatories, who explained that optical astronomy occupies a central position and will continue to do so." He deplored the fact that, in recent years, vital support had been "woefully small" for construction of ground-based telescopes of large size (up to 200 in class). He cited 1964 NASA-sponsored study by Panel on Astronomical Facilities (chaired by Lick Observatory's Albert E. Whitford) which had recommended $1-million study for construction of "the largest feasible optical reflector," and construction of three 150-to 200-in telescopes, four 60-to 84 in telescopes, and eight 36-to 48-in models. (Babcock, Science, 6/9/67,1317-22)
Rep. J. Edward Roush (D-Ind.) introduced to the House H.R. 10674, a bill to rename the Indiana Dunes National Lakeshore in honor of Astronaut Virgil I. Grissom who died in Jan. 27 Apollo accident. (NASA LAR VI/65)
US., France, and U.K. had had excellent displays at Paris International Air and Space Show [see May 23-31], but visitors had seemed most impressed by U.S.S.R. exhibit, Time magazine noted. "The greatest Soviet surprise was the launch vehicle that in 1961 sent Pioneer cosmonaut Yuri A. Gagarin into orbit in Vostok 1. Visitors at the show flocked to a huge mock-up of the 13.6-ton Proton satellite, [to] . . . a model of their advanced Molniya communications satellite, [and to] . . . the variety of new Russian jet liners. ". . . the US. went all out . . . [and] Britain and France also put their best fleet forward. . . . But it was the Russians who stole the show, simply by taking the wraps off space hardware, some of it a decade old-that they had never before displayed in the West. . . ." (Time, 6/9/67)
Decrease in worldwide air temperature since the 1940's might be due to emission of man-made pollutants into the atmosphere, National Center for Air Pollution scientists Robert A. McCormick and John H. Ludwig suggested in Science. Increasing amount of solid material made atmosphere more turbid and thus reduced amount of solar radiation reaching earth. Although excessive amount of carbon dioxide in atmosphere as a result of prolonged coal and oil burning should have made earth warmer, the authors noted, its effect had been offset by the turbidity caused by the pollutants. (McCormick, Ludwig, Science, 6/9/67, 1358-9)
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