Feb 6 1968

From The Space Library

U.S.S.R. launched Cosmos CCI into orbit with 327-km (203-mi) apogee, 89.7-min 202-km (126-mi) perigee, 89.7-m period, and 64.9° inclination. Satellite performed satisfactorily and reentered Feb. 14. (SBD, 2/7/68, 210; GSFC SSR, 2/15/68)

Senate confirmed nomination of Dr. Thomas 0. Paine as NASA Deputy Administrator [see Jan. 31]. (Transcript; NASA LAR VII/10; UPI, NYT, 2/8/68, 4)

NASA announced appointment of five members to its Aerospace Safety Advisory Panel: M/G Carroll H. Dunn, Director of Military Construc­tion in Office of Chief of Army Engineers, Dr. J. A. Hornbeck, Presi­dent of Sandia Corp.; Dr. Henry Reining, Jr., Dean of von KleinSmid Center of International Affairs, USC; Dr. Eberhard F. M. Rees, Special Assistant to Apollo Spacecraft Manager (detached from position as Deputy Director, SFC) ; and Bruce T. Lundin, Associate Director for Development, LeRC. Appointments implemented Sec. 6, P.L. 90-67, NASA Authorization Act for FY 1968. (NASA Release 68-26)

Dramatic reversal in balance of U.K. aerospace trade with U.S. had oc­curred in 1967, InteraviaAirLetter reported. Whereas in 1966, U.K. ex­ports to U.S. of $187 million (predevaluation) exceeded imports by a favorable $137.2 million (predevaluation), U.K. aerospace industry's 1967 dollar earnings of $118.3 million (new rate) were swamped by imports from U.S. totaling $149.3 million (new rate). This was highest figure ever recorded and included $127.2 million for aircraft and $22.1 million for engines. (InteraviaAirLetter, 2/6/68, 1)

February 6-8: Five nations-Brazil, India, Italy, Romania, and Sweden-had misgivings about draft treaty to prohibit further spread of nuclear weapons, submitted jointly at Geneva disarmament conference by U.S. and U.S.S.R. Jan. 18. On Feb. 8, India, through authoritative source, announced she feared neither U.S. nor U.S.S.R. would supply "an airtight guarantee of its territorial integrity and inviolability once Communist China achieves a second-strike intercontinental nuclear capability," according to Los An­geles Times. Sweden appealed to U.S.S.R. to match offers by U.S. and U.K. to permit international inspection of their peaceful nuclear activi­ties. (Hamilton, NYT, 2/7/68, 8; LA Times in W Post, 2/9/68; NYT, 2/9/68, 16)

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