Aug 30 1967
From The Space Library
NASA engineers maneuvered Lunar Orbiter III, launched Feb. 4, by firing spacecraft's velocity control engine 125.5 sec, with intent to simulate planned orbit for manned Apollo. Planned 100-mi circular orbit for Apollo was approximated in 196-mi apolune and 89-mi perilune achieved by maneuver from Lunar Orbiter III's prior 1,133-mi apolune and 87-mi perilune. Data on lunar gravity fields would be obtained for Apollo program. Lunar Orbiter series of four spacecraft orbiting around moon was providing valuable tracking target activity for NASA's Manned Space Flight Network (MSFN) . (NASA Release 67-233)
NATO intelligence had learned that French President Charles de Gaulle would begin extensive cooperation with U.S.S.R. in the field of space exploration, including the orbiting of nuclear weapons, Henry J. Taylor reported in the Philadelphia Evening Bulletin. Taylor claimed U.S.S.R. was devoting a "substantial percentage of its total military budget to the orbiting of nuclear weapons. (Taylor, P EB, 8/30/67)
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