Sep 13 1967
From The Space Library
ComSatCorp announced the selection of B. F. Parrott & Company, Roanoke, Va., as contractor for general construction work ($1.1 million) on the new comsat earth station in Preston County, about 35 miles southeast of Morgantown, W. Va. The high-capacity earth station would serve the Atlantic area and would be capable of sending and receiving all forms of international communications via commercial satellites-television, telephone, telegraph, and data. The station would be in operation by the fall of 1968. Earth stations also had been started near Cayey, Puerto Rico, and near Jamesburg, Calif. Three existing stations were located at Andover, Maine; Brewster Flat, Washington; and Paumalu, Oahu, Hawaii. (ComSatCorp Release 67-43)
Safety of combat air crews in Southeast Asia would be greatly improved by application of a new material (polyurethane foam) first used on the Indianapolis speedway. ASFC's engineers had successfully adapted the foam, which would be installed in the fuel tanks of combat aircraft in Vietnam. Under an Air Force contract, the Monsanto Research Corp., Dayton, Ohio, confirmed compatibility of the foam with military aircraft fuels. It would virtually prevent explosion in a direct hit on the fuel tank by machine gun tracer bullets or other incendiaries and would suppress slosh in the fuel tanks during flight. (AFSC Release 158.67)
TV coverage of space launches and press coverage of rising costs of space program had been almost the only source of public exposure of US. space effort, said Aerospace Systems Group Vice President J. Lynn Helms at Rotary International meeting during Michigan Univ.'s Sesquicentennial Celebration. Speaking on "A Citizen's Return on Investment," he outlined many accomplishments of US. space program that affect daily life, stating that "money spent in the quest for new information keeps coming back to us again and again . . a society that continually invests part of its annual profits into the future is a progressive society. Progressive societies serve their people better, in living standards, medicine, and health, and consideration for and by other nations of the world." (Text)
Dept. of State announced appointment of Office of Outer Space Affairs Director Robert F. Packard as director of new Office of Space and Environmental Science Affairs. This office would be a part of the International Scientific and Technological Affairs offices, whose responsibility is to advise and assist the Secretary on scientific and technological factors affecting foreign policy. Packard would be responsible for the international aspects of U.S. programs in space, atmospheric science, marine science, and earth sciences. Packard had served from 1961 to 1962 in the Office of the Special Assistant to the Secretary for Atomic Energy and Outer Space. (State Dept. Release, 9/13/67)
The iconic TWA Moonliner (later the Douglas Moonliner) is dismantled and removed from Disneyland in Anaheim California.
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