Jun 7 1969
From The Space Library
World's largest passenger airliner, 629,000-lb Boeing 747, landed at Dulles Airport, Washington, D.C., en route from Paris Air Show. Pan American World Airways would take delivery of its first 747 in September and inaugurate passenger service shortly after first of year. (W Star, 6/8/69, A23)
Since "any contamination of the earth from the moon would affect all men and all nations," " said New York Times, protective arrangements "should be approved by an international group, preferably by a formal United Nations committee. In the future men will go to Mars and other parts of the solar system where the prospects of finding living organisms are much greater than they are on the moon. If Americans now monopolize the key decisions regarding protection of the earth's environment, they will have no grounds for objecting later on if Russians, Chinese, Germans, Japanese, Brazilians or others monopolize similar decisions affecting human beings returning from more distant celestial bodies." (NYT, 6/7/69, 32)
In Nature, Stanford Univ. astronomer Dr. Edward K. Conklin reported recording earth's motion using background radiation believed to have been produced at early stage in universe's expansion. If theory was correct, radiation defined extremely distant reference frame for measurement of earth's motion. Recording showed 100-mi-per-sec movement in direction midway between direction of Big Dipper and star Arcturus. (Nature, 6/7/69, 971-2)
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