Nov 8 1969
From The Space Library
Apollo 11 Astronauts Neil A. Armstrong, Edwin E. Aldrin, Jr, and Michael Collins received first Pere Marquette Discovery Award of silver medal from Father Marquette Tercentenary Commission of Marquette Univ. (CR, 12/4/69, E10223)
Economist editorial commented: "If the Russians are ever going to get another prestige victory over the United States, and not the sort of worldwide humiliation they have endured with Luna XV during the American moon landing, and then with the triple Soyuz anti-climax, they will have to pull something off soon. For if not the Soviet planners may see increasingly less reason to continue spending even 1 per cent of the country's gross national product on its cosmonauts. . What is ironic is that a Soviet slowdown could be seen as a mirror image of the running battle in the United States between the scientists and the space engineers, but with the Russian scientists coming out on top. The Academy of Sciences is widely regarded as the repository of all that is most stuffily conservative in Soviet science. That may have been the central cause of the Russian flop." It was also blow to Americans who relied for new space funds on Nixon Administration's "continuing fear of what the Russians may yet do." (Economist, 11/8/69, 12-3)
Dr. Vesto M. Slipher, astronomer who headed team that discovered planet Pluto in 1930 and discoverer of aurora-like radiations of night sky, died at age 93. He had been director of Lowell Observatory in Flagstaff, Ariz." 1916-1954. (UPI, LA Times, 11/10/69)
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