Nov 16 1966
From The Space Library
GEMINI XII Astronauts James A. Lovell, Jr., and Edwin E. Aldrin, Jr., arrived at KSC to begin debriefing. Addressing some 700 workmen, Lovell said "everyone here has done an outstanding job to get us into space"; Aldrin described the four-day mission as a "treat to me as an individual that I would like to have shared with every person in the world." (Sehlstedt, Balt. Sun, 11/17/66)
NASA released first 140 ft. of more than 1,500 ft. of color movies taken by Astronauts James A. Lovell, Jr., and Edwin E. Aldrin, Jr., during their Nov. 11-15 space flight. Photography was of high quality. (AP, Wash. Eve. Star, 11/17/66, A4)
Eighth Uprated Saturn I booster successfully underwent shortduration-35-sec.-static firing at MSFC. (MSFC Release 66-288)
Site at Pakachoag Hill outside of Auburn, Mass., where Dr. Robert H. Goddard launched world's first liquid-fuel rocket fight on March 16, 1926, was approved as a national landmark by Secretary of the Interior Stewart Udall. (Dept. of Interior; SBD, 11/23/66, 119)
AFCRL launched Aerobee 150 sounding rocket from WSMR to 117-mi. (188-km.) altitude to collect micrometeorite particles during Leonid meteor shower. (OAR Res. Rev., 1/67, 8)
ComSatCorp requested FCC permission to construct $6.5-million, high capacity earth station at Barrio Monte Llano, Puerto Rico, to handle all types of communications in the Caribbean area via EARLY BIRD 1 and Intelsat II-A comsats. April 25 application for station at St. Croix, Virgin Islands, was withdrawn because military communications electronics equipment there "might cause harmful interference. . . ." (ComSatCorp Release)
SST development might be delayed because of current pressures to limit Federal spending; growing apprehension that SST would cause excessive property damage and noise from sonic booms; serious safety and technical problems; and SST evaluators' indecisiveness, Fred L. Zimmerman reported in the Wall Street Journal. (Zimmerman, WSJ, 11/16/66, 23)
Possibility that US. astronauts might land on moon in 1968 rather than 1969 "should serve to hasten agreement on international treaty aimed at making outer space exclusively a dimension of man's peaceful activity," postulates editorial in New York Times. "Hard decisions" about post-Apollo research should be made soon, especially since there were "far more possibilities for fruitful activities in space than even the United States can afford to carry on simultaneously." (NYT, 11/16/66, 42M)
Daniel J. Haughton, president of Lockheed Aircraft Corp., suggested at American Petroleum Institute meeting in New York that aerospace and petroleum industries combine their technical strengths for joint exploration of earth's continental shelves. He said that within 35 yrs. the world's population would have doubled and a large segment of this population would be hungry: "The oceans represent the last great source for feeding them and providing the chemicals and minerals and water to meet all the future needs of man." (AP, Wash. Eve. Star, 11/16/66)
November 16-18: National Conference on the Management of Aerospace Programs was held in Columbia, Mo. NASA Apollo Program Director M/G Samuel C. Phillips (USAF), in report on "Management Scheme for Apollo," concluded: "There is no single approach to program management that will guarantee success. The development of and experience with various management systems, techniques and tools in the past several years have contributed extensively to a more scientific approach. The `art' element remains, however. The integrated implementation of those concepts and their associated procedures and disciplines is sometimes confronted with considerable resistance within an organization. This has merit, for it forces management to thoroughly screen new concepts as to validity, feasibility and salability. Once a new management system is approved, however, it deserves and requires the personal support of the program director through line channels to stimulate its overall implementation and acceptance at the grass roots level. . . . (Text)
DeMarquis D. Wyatt, NASA Assistant Administrator for Programming, said that NASA's cost model had "significantly facilitated management decision making in complex on-going programs by providing an overnight computational capability of great capacity. The computer program is capable of handling the interrelated cost influences of up to 60 different hardware configurations at an unlimited number of plants and an unlimited number of production lines within each plant. It can . . . summarize program costs for as many as 24 fiscal years and can subdivide and allocate these costs to up to 8 different funding sources or users.. ." (Text)
Franklin P. Dixon, Director, Planetary Mission Studies, NASA OMSF, outlined manned Mars landing program for consideration as U.S. national space goal. Proposal called for seven-step program based principally on extension of mission-duration capability and including earth-orbital "Space Station/Mission Module," Mars and Venus flybys, and Mars landing. Discussing long-range NASA planning, he noted: "At the present time planning for the Saturn Apollo Applications program includes subsystem developments for long duration manned flights. . . . This provides a logical growth pattern toward manned planetary travel with the easier flyby missions within technological reach by the 1975 to 1980 time period for actual operational flights." (Text)
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