Apr 11 1966
From The Space Library
NASA Langley Research Center would negotiate $450,000 study contract with Martin Co. for 11-mo. study of "costs, crew size, and complexity of a flight research program using a manned lifting body vehicle." In conducting the study, the firm would be required to consider an HL-10 lifting-body concept capable of carrying one, two, four, six, or eight crew members. HL-10 was considered representative of advanced lifting entry vehicles. NASA had specified Titan II, Titan III, and Saturn I-B as potential launch vehicles. For study purposes, Rogers Dry Lake at Edwards AFB would be a probable landing site. (NASA Release 66-82; LaRC Release)
Clarence L. Johnson, Lockheed Aircraft Corp. vice president and designer of numerous aircraft, was named recipient of the Air Force Academy's 1966 Thomas D. White National Defense Award for "outstanding contribution to the national defense and security of the United States." (UPI, Wash. Post, 4/12/66, A18)
Development of the world's brightest laser-a light beam 250 billion times brighter than the sun-was announced by Dr, Theodore Maiman, president of Korad Corp., a subsidiary of Union Carbide Corp. Laser had an intensity of 250 trillion watts per square centimeter when focused to a point 1/1,000 of an inch in diameter. (UPI, Wash.. Post, 4/12/66, A5)
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