Jan 4 1968

From The Space Library

NASA Administrator James E. Webb announced personnel changes for new Apollo Lunar Exploration Office [establishment an­nounced Dec. 19, 1967]: Capt. Lee R. Scherer (USN, Ret.), Assistant Director for Lunar Programs and Lunar Orbiter Program Manager, OSSA, would transfer to OMSF to direct new office; Capt. William T. O'Bryant (N, Ret.), Program Manager for Apollo Lunar Surface Ex­periment Package, OSSA, would head Flight Systems Development Div.; and Dr. Richard J. Allenby, Jr., Deputy Director of Manned Flight Ex­periments, OSSA, would head Lunar Science Div. (NASA Release 68-5)

Robert F. Packard, Director of State Dept.'s Office of Space and Envi­ronmental Science Affairs, described prospects for international cooper­ative programs in space before meeting of National Capital Section of AIAA: ". . . our foreign policy objectives clearly call for an ongoing and successful space program [and] to a surprising degree the Ameri­can position in the world today may be affected by the manner in which we conduct our space program. . . . There may be opportunities to use space technology for arms verification and arms control, and to create special opportunities for cooperation between the major space powers. There will clearly be opportunities to extend the economic and social benefits which this technology offers and to use these applica­tions, as well as scientific research projects, as a means for increased international cooperation." (Text)

Robert Justman, an executive at Desilu studios in Los Angeles, terminates the employment of Hollywood screen writer Gene Roddenberry after producing 44 episodes of the television show Star Trek. (Letter)

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