Aug 9 1966
From The Space Library
NASA should submit to Congress by Dec. 1 its recommendations on possible major national space objectives, including costs and benefits of specific missions, concluded 439-page staff report prepared for House Science and Astronautics Committee's NASA Oversight Subcommittee. Subcommittee would hold hearings "at an early date" to define future space goals. Study-based on testimony of NASA center directors, industrial managers, scientists, and other interested parties-recommended greater interagency coordination in planning and urged NASA to "aggressively pursue possible mechanisms for more comprehensive program of international cooperation . . . "Future space programs should be evaluated in relation to national economy and include "increased emphasis on minimum cost logistics vehicles within the state of the art to assure that economical logistics and rescue systems are available in the early 1970s and that similar emphasis be placed on new generation of spacecraft design capable of ground recovery at lower cost." (Text)
USAF launched unidentified satellite with Thor-Agena D booster from WTR. (US. Aeron. & Space Act., 1966, 154)
Computer technique developed by JPL scientist Dr. Robert Nathan and applied to 12 photos of the lunar surface transmitted by NASA's SURVEYOR I spacecraft revealed details as small as 1/50 of an inch and, in some cases, apparently doubled observable characteristics. Enhancement process had been used successfully to intensify photos transmitted by NASA's three Ranger spacecraft and MARINER IV Mars probe. (NASA Release 66-206; JPL Release)
NASA awarded Dow Chemical Co. a $4-million, cost-plus-fixed-fee extension to previous contract for KSC support services through June 30, 1967. (NASA Release 66-212)
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