Feb 7 1965
From The Space Library
FAA Administrator Najeeb E. Halaby, questioned about the supersonic transport in New Orleans, cited the following advantages: the 220-plus passenger SST in one year would carry as many passengers as does the Queen Elizabeth with a crew of 1,500; the SST would effect obvious economies by decreasing air transportation time to a third of present levels; the program would provide approximately 15,000 skilled jobs a year that would otherwise not be filled; the SST project would advance the technology of titanium as much as World War II aircraft production advanced that of aluminum. (Wash. Post, 2/8/65)
A full-scale aluminum model of a 1,400-lb. telescoping space structure had been fabricated to verify design theory and manufacturing techniques, AFSC announced. Built by Martin-Denver, the 15-by-8-ft. expandable structure could be launched into space in a compact package and then, like a telescope, opened to full size after reaching orbit, Several of the expandable structures stacked on a booster's upper stage could be sent into space and expanded to form a rotating space station. (AFSC Release 4,64)
NBC television executives reject the pilot episode of the television show Star Trek. At the same time they make the unprecedented decision to commission a second pilot from Hollywood screen writer Gene Roddenberry.
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