Jul 17 1966
From The Space Library
IAM strike at KSC ended when an agreement was reached between Local 773 of IAM and TWA, sending 1,100 machinists back to work. Labor-management observers cited the local agreement as a "first" for KSC. (KSC Historian)
Commenting on the tiny US. flag packed into SURVEYOR I which soft-landed on the moon June 2, Sydney Harris said in the Sun Francisco Examiner & Chronicle: "If we begin to export nationalism to the moon, we are defeating the very purpose of science and exploration." (Harris, S.F. Examiner & Chron., 7/17/66)
Click here to listen a press conference recorded on this day about the Gemini 10 experiments.
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