Jul 9 1966
From The Space Library
Sun had blinded GEMINI IX Astronauts Thomas P. Stafford and Eugene A. Cernan for more than two minutes of the critical liftoff period June 3, preventing them from reading control gauges or dials, KSC officials disclosed. As a result, NASA was considering fitting outside of spacecraft windows with tinted coverings on launchings when sun might be a serious problem. Coverings would be sprung free of windows when spacecraft had achieved orbit. Cernan's suggestion of sunglasses would probably be rejected, NASA said, because it would be impossible to wear them under helmets. (NYT, 7/10/66, 45)
ComSatCorp would conduct communications test in which U.S. and European computers would "talk with each other" for a month in fall 1966 via EARLY BIRD 1 comsat, reported New York Times. Test could lead to daily exchange by satellite of business, scientific, and technical information, and to establishment of U.N. "voice of peace" agency-a world bank of medical, technical, and educational knowledge-proposed at November 1965 White House conference on international cooperation. (Clark, NYT, 7/10/66, 43)
William A. Hyman, internationally known air and space lawyer and author, died in New York City. (AP, Wash. Post, 7/11/66)
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