Jan 27 1966
From The Space Library
NASA’s PIONEER VI interplanetary space probe had reported its first major solar events and the highest solar wind velocity it had measured since launch Dec. 16, 1965: a stream of solar particles was rushing past the spacecraft and the earth at about 1,440,000 mph. This compared with the highest solar wind speed ever measured by a NASA spacecraft - EXPLORER XVIII - of about 1,675,000 mph. ‘‘(NASA Release 66-2 1)’’
Arnold Frutkin, NASA Assistant Administrator for International Affairs and US. representative to the Working Group of the U.N. Committee on the Peaceful Uses of Outer Space, supported U.S.S.R. proposal for an international conference in 1967 to commemorate the first decade of space exploration, further international cooperation in space, and promote the practical benefits of man’s exploration of space. He suggested four topics for the conference: (1) appraisal of contributions of scientific research in space to practical applications and international cooperation; (2) opportunities for participation in space exploration through space research and cooperative projects; (3) applications and economic implications of space research; and (4) impact of space exploration on education. ‘‘(SBD, 1/27/66, 170)’’
Sen. J. W. Fulbright (D-Ark.) spoke satirically on the floor of the Senate on priorities of space, as opposed to social problems, in allocation of natural resources. He labeled as “small minded, selfish, and sentimental” the Americans who “tell us there is no real hurry about going to the moon when tens of millions of Americans . . . spend their lives in dirty, dangerous, and unhealthy cities, when hundreds of millions more are condemned to degraded lives of poverty and early deaths of preventable diseases.” He cited a recent article in Britain’s Punch that reproached those Englishmen who would complain about giving up an iron lung and artificial limbs to provide the aluminum for space vehicles “as if a nation’s prestige lay in its free artificial legs, and not up there in the sky. ‘‘ (CR, 1/27/66, 1209)’’
North American Air Defense Command (NORAD)-nerve center of North American air and space defense-took formal possession of new headquarters built 1,200-1,400 ft. into the solid granite of Cheyenne Mountain, Colo., to insure survival of a retaliatory capability in the event of nuclear attack. Eleven interlinked, steel-framed, steel sheathed, three-story buildings constituting the command post were mounted on coil springs that would protect equipment from ground shock of nearby thermonuclear blast. ‘‘(Eng. Opp., 2/66, 20-28)’’
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