Jun 13 1966
From The Space Library
House appointed to House-Senate Conference Committee on NASA FY 1967 authorization Reps. William E. Miller (R-N.Y.), Olin E. Teague (D-Tex.), Joseph E. Karth (D-Minn.), Ken Hechler (D-W. Va.), Emilio Q. Daddario (D-Conn.), Joseph W. Martin (R-Mass.), James G. Fulton (R-Pa.), and Charles A. Mosher (R-Ohio). (NASA LAR V/95-96)
Accomplishments between June 1 and 7-SURVEYOR I, GEMINI IX-A, OGO III, and [Weightless Analysis Sounding Probe|WASP]] missions-had given NASA "the most rewarding week in its short but action-packed history," wrote William J. Coughlin in Technology Week. "Big shots and small, it all added up to an active and highly promising seven-day period for NASA. As someone commented, this was indeed the week that was." (Coughlin, Tech. Wk., 6/13/66,54)
V/Adm. Rufus E. Rose (USN, Ret.) resigned as special assistant on policy studies and analyses to NASA Administrator James E. Webb to become an assistant to the president of Allied Research Associates, Inc. Admiral Rose, who joined NASA in 1964 after 44 years USN service, would be involved with "planning, organization, management, and overseas operation at Allied. (NASA Release 66-148; Marshall Star, 6/22/66,3)
France planned to continue work on large space boosters, either alone or with other interested European nations, despite British decision to withdraw from ELDO's Europa rocket program, Aviation Week and Space Technology reported. French officials, open in their bitterness at the British decision, viewed the withdrawal as further proof that U.K. made "a poor European partner." (Av. Wk., 6/13/66, 38)
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