Nov 20 1966
From The Space Library
U.S.S.R. began new carrier rocket tests in the Pacific that would last until Dec. 30. Tass said area with 56-km. (35-mi.) radius had coordinates of 0ø5' south latitude and 163ø45' west longitude. Ships and aircraft were requested not to enter this area daily between noon and midnight local time. (Tass, 11/19/66)
ESRO successfully launched France's Centaure rocket from range at Paksuniemi, Sweden, to study the aurora borealis. (Reuters, Wash. Post, 11/21/66, A14)
High military potential of space was discussed by Hanson W. Baldwin in New York Times: ". . . the advent of the military man in space is inevitable. For man can supply the judgment that no machine can offer; he can monitor and correct and interpret the instruments and aids essential to space flight; he will be able to repair satellites and assemble space platforms. He will pilot tomorrow's fighting machines in the cosmos. And in time he may actually be able, with a whole host of scientific aids, to control the weather with all the tremendous military and social consequences this implies." (Baldwin, NYT, 11/20/66, A7)
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