Nov 10 1965
From The Space Library
NASA EXPLORER XXIII meteoroid-detection satellite had successfully completed its one-year expected lifetime, NASA announced. The 295-lb. satellite, launched November 6, 1964, from Wallops Station to measure the rate of meteoroid punctures at 300-mi, to 600-mi. altitude, had recorded 122 punctures as of September 30. These results indicated that an exposed area of 10 sq, ft. made of metal one-thousandth of an inch thick would experience penetration by a meteoroid about once a week. (NASA Release 65-351)
NASA Nike-Apache sounding rocket launched from Ft. Churchill, Canada, with Univ. of Michigan pitot-static probe to measure pressure, temperature, and density from 15-km, to 115-km. altitudes. Experiment was not successful because of undetermined malfunction in the rocket during Apache-stage propulsion. (NASA Rpt. SRL)
Two simultaneous IQSY launches for high-altitude research were made by USAF from Eglin AFB, Fla., in support of each other, one with a Nike-Cajun rocket and the other with a Sparrow-Areas. (Eglin AFB Release 65-449)
Four Nike-Apache sounding rockets would be launched from Chamical, Argentina, for the study of an ionospheric phenomenon called "Sporadic E" under an extension to a cooperative U.S.-Argentine agreement. The Argentine Comision Nacional de Investigaciones Espaciales (CNIE) would provide the personnel for payload fabrication at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center, procure the rockets, operate the range at Chamical, and be responsible for the reduction and analysis of data obtained. NASA would provide the equipment and facilities for construction of the payloads and a Nike-Apache launcher on loan. No exchange of funds between CNIE and NASA was contemplated. (NASA Release 65-350)
Dr. Hugh L. Dryden, NASA Deputy Administrator, delivering the annual Robert Thurston Lecture of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers in Chicago, said that man would probably never explore the stars since a round trip to the nearest would take 160,000 yrs. Dr. Dryden spoke on the impact of man-in-space on engineering. This was to be his last public appearance. (Manly, Chic, Trib., 11/ 11/65)
NASA selected Telecomputing Services, Inc, and Ling-Temco-Vought's Range System Div. for competitive negotiations of a cost-plus-award fee contract to provide computer support services for the Michoud Assembly Facility and the Mississippi Test Facility. The $1.5-million contract would be negotiated for a one-year period with provisions for three consecutive one-year renewals. (NASA Release 65-349)
Laboratory research prompted by weight losses of American and Russian spacemen on orbital flights had indicated a relationship between a person's water-drinking habits, working ability, and real or imagined stresses and strains, reported William J. Perkinson in the Washington Evening Star. American astronauts had lost between three and five percent of their body weight in orbital flights; Russian cosmonauts had lost less-between one and three percent-partly because they perspired less in the shirt-sleeve environments of Soviet spacecraft than Americans did in spacesuits. One NASA report on hypohydration-condition when a person drinks too little water-noted a 5% weight loss due to water imbalance was tolerable, but a 10% loss could cause gross mental and physical deterioration. (Perkinson, Wash. Eve, Star, 11/10/65, B10)
Christopher Kraft's hometown of Hampton, Va., honored him with a full day of ceremonies on Christopher C. Kraft Day. (Langley Researcher, 11/5/65)
U.S. authorities had considered and rejected the idea of building orbiting nuclear missiles because it would be a clumsy, inaccurate method of waging atomic war, reported the Associated Press, U.S. experts had calculated that a warhead launched from orbit would not come Within 50 mi. of its target on earth whereas U.S. ICBMs and submarine-launched Polaris missiles were accurate within one mile. In addition, U.S. had developed antisatellite rockets that could intercept enemy satellites in orbit, Disclosure was made because of a November 7 Tass announcement that one of the missiles paraded through Moscow for the Anniversary of the Bolshevik Revolution had warheads that could "deliver their surprise blow on the first or any orbit around the earth." (AP, Wash. Eve. Star, 11/10/65, H2)
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