Feb 22 1967
From The Space Library
USAF launched unidentified satellite WTR using Thor-Agena D booster; satellite reentered Mar. 11. (Pres Rep 1967; GSFC SSR, 3/15/67)
Illustrations of the predictive ability of the contemporary engineer were made by ARC's Simulation Sciences Div. chief, George A. Rathert, Jr., at Moffett Field Scholarship Night Banquet for Bay Area Joint Engineers Council: ". . . FAA pilots were experiencing certain characteristics of the supersonic transport on simulators at the Ames Research Center 15 months before the FAA asked for bids on the design studies. You will recall Astronaut Gordon Cooper having to manually control the attitude of his space ship during a reentry retrofiring to successfully complete his mission. Engineering test pilots at Ames were studying problems of coping with manual control of a simulated spacecraft reentering with partly failed control systems more than nine years ago." (Text)
Soviet antimissile defense system could not prevent all enemy missiles from reaching their targets, Marshal Andrey A. Grechko, acting Soviet Defense Minister, and Marshal Vasily I. Chuikov, head of Soviet civil defense program, wrote in Izvestia article commemorating Soviet Armed Forces Day. Their assertion contradicted statement by Gen. Pavel A. Kurochkin, head of Frunze Military Academy, at Feb. 20 news conference: "If enemy missiles fly, they will not arrive in Moscow." (Anderson, NYT, 2/23/67,1)
France would launch 330-lb Saros comsat-138 lbs heavier than ComSatCorp's INTELSAT II comsats-in 1970 from new French Guiana launch site using ELDO's Europa booster, Reuters reported. Saros would provide direct telephone, radio, and television communications between France and French-speaking countries. (Reuters, W Post, 2/23/67, A3)
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