Jul 16 1967
From The Space Library
Dr. Athelstan F. Spilhaus, Univ. Lunar Orbiter III, and Lunar Orbiter IV, all circling the moon, were being used by NASA's Manned Space Flight Network personnel and stations for practice tracking exercises. Satellites served as "stand-ins" for the manned Apollo spacecraft which would eventually orbit the moon. (NASA Release 67-183)
Jerald Kubat, formerly Special Assistant to the Apollo Program Director, OMSF, had been appointed Director, Apollo Program Control. He would have overall responsibility for program planning, configuration management, logistics, resources control, and procurement operations to ensure the attainment of Apollo goals. (NASA Ann, 7/17/67)
A U-2 photographic aircraft was flown at Edwards AFB to test missile system that would intercept and then incapacitate enemy satellites, George Wilson reported in Washington Post. "The idea is to equip the United States with a missile or spacecraft that could blind reconnaissance satellites in time of war or national emergency. There is no intention now of ending the gentlemen's agreement under which both the US. and the Soviet Union spy on each other by satellite. "But there may come a day, Air Force leaders say, when the US. will want to hide the movements of its bombers and missiles. . . ." (Wilson, W Post, 7/27/67, 17)
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