Feb 14 1969
From The Space Library
ComSatCorp announced broadcasters had booked 40 hrs of satellite time for TV coverage of President Nixon's European trip Feb. 23-March 3. More than 17 hrs had been requested from abroad to date for coverage of Apollo 9 Feb. 28-March 3. (ComSatCorp Release 69-8; W Star, 2/16/69, C6)
In Science Hudson Hoagland, President Emeritus of Worcester Foundation for Experimental Biology, commented on Condon Report on UFOs released Jan 9, 1968: "The basic difficulty inherent in any investigation of phenomena such as those of psychic research or of UFO's is that it is impossible for science ever to prove a universal negative. There will be cases which remain unexplained because of lack of data, lack of repeatability, false reporting, wishful thinking, deluded observers, rumors, lies, and fraud. A residue of unexplained cases is not a justification for continuing an investigation after overwhelming evidence has disposed of hypotheses of supernormality, such as beings from outer space or communications from the dead. .. Science deals with probabilities, and the Condon investigation adds massive additional weight to the already overwhelming improbability of visits by UFO's guided by intelligent beings." (Science, 2/14/69, 625)
Leonard Mandelbaum in Science briefly examined history of U.S. decision to adopt Apollo Program. "Cautious approach" to manned space flight gave way after impact of April 12, 1961, "Russian spectacular" -flight of Cosmonaut Yuri A. Gagarin-and U.S. Cuban foreign policy fiasco, Bay of Pigs. "Congress acted without hearing testimony of compelling military need. The Apollo decision was made without reference to any comprehensive and integrated national policy designed to maximize the use of scientific and technological resources for social objectives. . . . It was a typical Cold War reaction." (Science, 2/14/69, 649)
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