Nov 13 1964
From The Space Library
NASA announced that further analysis of results of the first experiments to use the laser beam for satellite tracking indicated that scientists had accomplished precision tracking of a satellite with a laser device. Tests were conducted on 10 passes of the EXPLORER XXII satellite since the first success on Oct. 11. (NASA Release 64-285)
NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center announced that two barnacle-encrusted capsules, each containing 100 ft. of color motion-picture film in good condition, were found, one on a beach at Eleuthera Island in the Bahamas, the other near a beach in San Salvador in Central America. The capsules had been ejected from Saturn I SA-7 booster rocket launched Sept.' 18, 1964, from Cape Kennedy. (UPI, NYT, 11/14/64, 24)
NASA's Lewis Research Center announced that it was testing a gas bearing, designed as a research tool, in a vacuum simulating space environment above 100 miles. Suspended from the top of a 60-ft.-long, 15-ft.-dia. tank, the bearing would provide complete freedom of motion to any payload attached to the bearing. A suspended payload would have three-axis mobility with a 10° swing in both pitch and yaw. The bearing, designed to carry an average 350-lb. payload, would enable scientists to evaluate low-thrust systems for attitude control or station-keeping in on-the-ground tests. (LRC Release 64-105)
United Technology Center's 120-in.-dia., solid-propellant motor for Air Force's Titan III-C booster was static-fired successfully for more than 110 sec. with a new ablative nozzle-throat which probably would be substituted for the carbon throat previously used in test firings. (Av. Wk., 11/23/64, 34; me)
Dr. George E. Mueller, NASA Associate Administrator for Manned Space Flight, at the National Editorial Writers' Conference in Cocoa Beach, Fla., said: "The Apollo development schedule is conservative. The Apollo spacecraft is being developed on a time scale four years longer than the Mercury spacecraft, two years longer than the B-58 bomber, and one year longer than the X-15." (Text)
UNESCO decided to convene an international meeting of scientists in Paris late next year to study the use of space satellites in mass communications media. No exact date was set for the meeting. (NYT, 11/14/64, 29)
Harry F. Guggenheim, president of the Daniel and Florence Guggenheim Foundation, was named by NAA as the recipient of the Wright Brothers Memorial Trophy for 1964. (AP, NYT, 11/14/64, 31)
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