Nov 12 1965
From The Space Library
Space News for this day. (2MB PDF)
VENUS II 2,123-lb. unmanned space probe was successfully launched by U.S.S.R. into a heliocentric orbit on a three-and-one-half month journey toward Venus. Tass announced that the trajectory was "close to the prescribed one" and that all onboard equipment was functioning normally. During its flight, VENUS II "would carry out an extensive space research program using onboard scientific instruments." (Tass, 11/12/65; NYT, 11/13/65, 10)
FAA awarded $2,6-million contract to Texas Instruments, Inc, for 20 airport surveillance radar (ASR) systems. Seventeen of the systems would replace obsolete equipment at USN and Marine air stations and would be paid for by USN; two systems would be installed in and paid for by Brazil; and one system would be used and paid for by USA. (FAA Release 65-107)
Fourth and final flight of the Stellar Acquisition Feasibility Flight (Staff) program from Eastern Test Range aboard a USN-supplied Polaris A-1 was termed an unqualified success by USAF and General Precision, Inc. GPI made the Staff guidance system, intended as forerunner of a Stellar Inertial Guidance System (Stings). During the flight, guidance equipment sequentially acquired both the star Polaris and second star of less magnitude. Ability to move through a two-star sequence would be necessary for guidance systems used in con- junction with any future mobile missile system to accurately determine coordinates of the initial launch position, predict trajectories, measure deviation, and make corrections. (USAF Staff Proj. Off.)
The vast accumulation of knowledge generated by the space program required a "new wave" of science reporters to challenge and stimulate "a new wave of readers and viewers who are seeking answers," Julian Scheer, NASA Assistant Administrator for Public Affairs, told the Sigma Delta Chi National Convention in Los Angeles. He referred to a need to look "beyond the obvious and the glamorous to what is happening in space and science and what impact this will have socially, diplomatically, politically and economically." (Text)
DOD selected the first eight of a planned 20 astronauts for USAF's Manned Orbiting Laboratory program: Maj. Michael J. Adams (USAF) ; Maj. Albert H. Crews (USAF) ; Lt. John L. Finley (USN) ; Capt. Richard E. Lawyer (USAF) ; Capt, Lachlan Macleay (USAF) ; Capt. F. Gregory Neubeck (USAF) ; Capt. James M. Taylor (USAF) ; and Lt. Richard H. Truly (USN). Formal training would begin at Edwards AFB, early next year. (USAF Release)
A new kind of scientist-an interdisciplinarian to transcend specialization- was needed to solve many of the problems created by specialists, said Dr. John H. Heller, director of the New England Institute for Medical Research, in a lecture at American Univ. sponsored by the Metropolitan Washington Board of Trade, He said the interdisciplinarian would receive as much training in depth as a scientific specialist but would be instructed "far more broadly in depth." (Wash, Sun, Star, 11/14/65, A3)
USAF Hound Dog missile fired from B-52 bomber crashed near Ft. Wingate, N. Mex, and ignited several fires in Cibola National Forest. Missiles were programed to land at White Sands Missile Range, 175 mi. southeast of impact point. (UPI, NYT, 11/13/65, 12)
Soviet Cosmonaut Aleksei Leonov, first man to walk in space, displayed seven paintings at Moscow's Palace of Pioneers, headquarters of the National Children's Organization. Explaining one painting of the cosmos, Leonov told reporters: "Previous cosmonauts tried to photograph three vivid belts of light-red, orange and blue-that ring the earth, but they never showed up in photographs. When I got back I painted the belts of light, each fading into the next, just as I had seen them. The sun glowed through the colors looking like a strange object with little wings coming directly at me." (Grose, NYT, 11/13/65, 10)
North American Aviation President J. L. Atwood discussed "dramatic strides" made in civil aviation, at the dedication of the Albuquerque Sunport, N. Mex,: "In just 35 years-from 1929 to 1964 the number of passenger-miles traveled annually on the world's civil airlines increased from 105 million to 105 billion-almost a thousand fold. . . In only 15 years, between 1949 and 1964, the annual number of passengers on world civil airlines increased from 27 million to 154 million -nearly six fold ... A Stanford Research Institute study predicts that passenger-miles on the free world's scheduled airlines-which were 105 billion in 1964-will reach approximately 229 billion in 1975..." (Text)
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