Jul 6 1969
From The Space Library
NASA's Mariner VI (launched Feb. 24) and Mariner VII (launched March 27) were performing well and had traveled 41 million mi and 39 million mi from earth. Mariner VI, scheduled for July 31 flyby, was 9 million mi from Mars; Mariner VII, scheduled for Aug. 5 flyby, was 11 million mi from Mars. (NASA Release 69-102)
Dept. of Commerce announced it had successfully tracked free-drifting buoy in deep ocean with satellite telemetry in test off east Florida coast. Navigational data were relayed via satellite to GSFC for processing. Experiment proved ocean currents could be traced accurately and atmospheric and oceanographic data could be obtained from sensors on drifting buoy and transmitted with navigational information from remote regions of world. (NASA Release 69-41)
In Washington Sunday Star, David Van Praagh discussed President Nixon's planned Asian tour, to follow mid-Pacific recovery of Apollo 11 crew: Nixon would find "the problems of this planet's most populous continent present a striking contrast. They are not subject to quick, rational, scientific or dramatic solutions. Usually they can not even be tackled through modern communications. The vast majority of Indians and Pakistanis for example, can't read or write and do not own a tiny transistor radio or TV set to monitor the Pacific splashdown. They live in a rather backward age and most of them are hungry." (W Star, 7/6/69, D14)
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