Jun 14 1966
From The Space Library
Nike-Apache sounding rocket launched from NASA Wallops Station carried 50-lb. instrumented payload to 115-mi. (185-km.) altitude. Conducted by NASA for Univ. of Illinois and GCA Corp., experiment was designed to measure electron density in ionospheric D region. (Wallops Release 66-36)
Gen. Maxwell D. Taylor (USAF), special consultant to President Johnson, was appointed president of Institute for Defense Analysis replacing Dr. J. P. Ruina, who would return to MIT. IDA also named Dr. Gordon J. F. MacDonald, of UCLA's Dept. of Planetary and Space Sciences, vice president for research. Both appointments would take effect in September. (IDA Release)
NASA's PIONEER VI interplanetary probe launched from ETR Dec. 16, 1965, completed six-month nominal mission at a range of 54.6 million mi. with all spacecraft systems performing well. Perihelion had been passed May 20, 1966, and aphelion passage would occur Oct. 24. Preliminary results of experiments had been reported Apr. 19 at American Geophysical Union meeting in Washington, D.C. (NASA Proj. Off.)
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