Jan 5 1965
From The Space Library
NASA announced plans to negotiate with Lockheed Missile and Space Co. to modify five Agena D second-stage launch vehicles for use in Lunar Orbiter missions. Modifications under the incentive contract would include vehicle engineering support; systems testing; overall system integration functions; shroud, adapter and interface coordination; and design fabrication of ground equipment. The Lunar Orbiter program would secure topography data of the moon's surface to extend scientific knowledge and to help select and confirm landing sites for the Apollo manned moon landings. (NASA Release 65-6)
NASA Manned Spacecraft Center had received an estimated 1,351 applications or letters of interest relating to the scientist-astronaut program. The deadline for filing applications had been Dec. 31, 1964. (Houston Post, 1/5/65)
J. Stalony-Dobrazanski of the Northrop Corp. reported at AIAA meeting in New York that spaceships could be kept cool automatically during reentry by a new guidance system. Network of supersensitive thermometers imbedded in the outer skin of the spacecraft would monitor the temperature, then computer would order correction in vehicle's trajectory or orientation if friction of the atmosphere raised skin temperature above a certain point. (Wash. Daily News, 1/26/65)
Western Electric Company had received a $90,644,200 modification to an existing cost- plus-incentive-fee contract for research and development of Nike-X missile system, DOD announced. (DOD Release 3-65)
Federal Aviation Agency (FAA) announced completion of the new Federal Aviation Regulations (FARs)-a simplification of rules governing the Nation's pilots, airlines, and airplane manufacturers. Number of regulations was reduced from 125 to 55. (FAA Release 65-2)
In a television interview, Israeli Premier Levi Eshkol urged West Germans to end the activity of German rocket experts in the United Arab Republic, said that these experts were helping the Arabs to prepare a war against Israel. The West German government had officially deplored the participation of German scientists and military experts in Arab rocket projects, but had not interfered on the grounds that the group was composed of private citizens who, according to the German Constitution, could work where they pleased. German rocket expert Prof. Wolfgang Pilz, leader of Germans working for the U.A.R., spoke in an interview of the pressure brought to bear by the Israeli Government, particularly the terrorist tactics of Israeli secret agents which made it necessary for Germans to be accompanied by body guards at all times. (NYT, 1/7/65, 5; Buchalla, NYT, 1/8/65, 1)
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