Aug 10 1973
From The Space Library
NASA announced it had granted a five-year patent license to K-H Enterprises to manufacture and sell a burglar-intrusion detection system based on an Ames Research Center-developed capacitance pres-sure transducer. The transducer had been developed by ARC scientist Grant Koon to measure pressures on wind-tunnel models. In its application as an aircraft intrusion detection system, the transducer sensed the physical mass of an approaching person in the aircraft's vicinity as a change in capacitance and activated an alarm. (NASA Release 73-148)
NASA launched a Nike-Apache sounding rocket from Wallops Island carrying a Univ. of Illinois payload to a 187.8-km (116.7-mi) altitude. The objective was to measure electron temperature and electron density profile of intense blanketing of the sporadic E-region at 100 to 120 km (60 to 75 mi). Data would be compared with data from a Nike-Apache launched Aug. 3. The rocket and instrumentation performed satisfactorily. All experimental objectives appeared to have been achieved, (NASA Rpt SRL)
Remarks by French oceanologist Dr. Jacques-Yves Cousteau during a lecture series sponsored by Ames Research Center, San Francisco Univ., San Jose State Univ., and the Astronomical Society of the Pacific were quoted by the San Francisco Examiner: A "new awareness, a space-age consciousness especially among younger people" could "cause mankind to abandon violence, money and false material pleasures based on un-controlled production and consumption, and to start preparing planet Earth for a cosmic awareness and a personal immortality." (SF Exam, 8/10/73)
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