Jul 28 1966
From The Space Library
U.S.S.R. launched COSMOS CXXVI to "continue exploration of outer space" into earth orbit with 359-km. (223-mi.) apogee; 212-km. (132-mi.) perigee; 51.8ø inclination; and 90-min. period. Equipment was functioning normally. (Tass, 7/28/66)
X-15 No. 1 was flown by NASA test pilot John B. McKay to 3,682 mph (mach 5.19) and 241,800-ft. altitude. Mission objectives included micrometeoroid collection and evaluation of pace transducer, horizon scanner, nonglare glass, and stick kicker. (X-15 Proj. Off.)
NASA in conjunction with the Brazilian Space Commission and Canadian Research Council would launch 10 Nike-Cajun sounding rockets with 80-lb. acoustic grenade payloads from Natal, Brazil; Churchill Research Range; Point Barrow, Alaska; and NASA Wallops Station. Four rockets would be launched from Churchill and two from each of the other sites. Experiments would begin whenever noctilucent clouds appeared over Churchill area and would be conducted over 24-hr. period. Project would be coordinated by GSFC. (NASA Release 66-199; Wallops Release)
ComSatCorp announced in financial statement that revenues from operating EARLY BIRD 1 comsat had totaled $2,107,000 for first half of 1966 while income from temporary cash investments was $4,472,000. Cash and temporary cash investments totaled $186,534,000 on June 30. (ComSatCorp)
Expansion of behavioral and social research to keep pace with scientific and technical advance was urged by Dr. Eugene B. Konecci, NASC staff member, at NDEA Institute for Advanced Study in Industrial Arts Education at Univ. of Maryland. "One of the biggest problems confronting us," he said, "is that we tend to train our young people for today's world rather than prepare them for the new developments of the future. Aerospace systems approach can help to neutralize this problem by outlining the parameters and making a model to help predict the future requirements. . . . Fear of innovation is based generally on lack of knowledge, so we must educate our entire population to our rapidly changing world." (Text, AFISD, 10/66)
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