Dec 16 1966
From The Space Library
XB-70 No. 1 experimental research aircraft, piloted by North American Aviation, Inc., test pilot Van Shepard and NASA test pilot Fitzhugh Fulton, reached mach 2.55 and 60,300-ft. altitude in national sonic boom program flight. (NASA Proj. Off.)
Almost all orbiting West Ford dipoles (launched by USAF May 10, 1963) had reentered the atmosphere during period of several months centering on predicted Jan. 1 reentry date, Irving I. Shapiro wrote in Science. Some dipole clusters had remained in orbit, but these, with few exceptions, were expected to return to earth within two years. Experiments performed while dipoles were in orbit had verified calculations that predicted interference with optical and radio astronomical observations would be negligible. (Shapiro, Science, 12/16/66)
New York Times correspondent Evert Clark was selected for AAAS-Westinghouse science writing award for reporters on newspapers with 100,000 or more circulation. Clark was cited for nine articles about NASA's SURVEYOR I published between May 31 and July 14. (Science, 12/16/66, 143 1)
U.S.S.R. would cooperate with "any country in developing space communications," Deputy Communications Minister Nikolay Talyzin told Tass in a Moscow interview. He claimed that four Soviet Molniya I comsats could ensure multi-channel telephone, telegraph, and phototelegraph links between countries in the Northern Hemisphere such as US., Japan, Cuba, and Southeast Asia. (Wash. Post, 12/17/66, C16)
DOD's Advanced Research Projects Agency (ARPA) announced establishment of an Office of Advanced Engineering under Dr. Chiao Jen Wang, former Booz-Allen Applied Research, Inc., executive. (DOD Release 1053.66)
AEC had selected Weston, Ill., site near Chicago for proposed 200-billion electron-volt (bev) proton accelerator. Six sites recommended by NAS had been under study since March. (AEC Release J-282)
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