Nov 2 1967
From The Space Library
XB-70 research aircraft, flown at FTC by USAF pilots Col. Joseph Cotton and L/C Emil Strumthal, reached mach 2.52 and 63,500-ft altitude in flight to test stability control and handling qualities. Other test objectives included: handling qualities at mach 1.2 and 40,000-ft altitude; unstarts; radar air speed calibration at mach 1.9 down to 1.2 and 45,W-ft altitude; nose ramp flutter function at mach 1.2 $and 32,000-ft altitude, and at mach 2.55 and 64,000-ft altitude. (NASA Proj Off)
USAF launched two unidentified satellites from WTR on single Thor-Agena D booster; one of two satellites reentered Dec. 2. (Pres Rep 1967)
World's largest optical telescope-Soviet 236.2-in-dia mirror at Leningrad-might be unveiled on Nov. 7, 50th anniversary of Bolshevik Revolution, reported Space Business Daily. New telescope was reported to be 82 ft long and to weigh 275 tons; its guidance system would have a precise time-augmented design to guarantee accuracy. U.S. Mount Palomar telescope-world's largest operating mirror-now 20 years old, had diameter of 200 in. (SBD, 11/2/67,11)
British Univ. of Bristol Prof. H. E. Hinton, speaking to the Royal Society, described a capacity for revival after periods of suspended animation by insects and worm-like parasites with millions of cells. Hinton stated that these living organisms were dried out, kept in suspended animation for years, subjected to extremes of temperature, and then revived no worse for wear. According to Hinton, as long as spatial relations of the molecules were maintained, life activities could be restored to inert organisms whose cells had had no interactions for long periods of time. Injuries inflicted on fly larvae in their inert state, even cutting them into pieces, did not prevent restoration of life-although the larvae, once restored, promptly died of their wounds. Hinton suggested that if complex organisms could be reduced to an inert structure on which passage of time had no effect, infinitely prolonged "calendar" life-important for a space voyage lasting centuries or millennia-was a theoretical, although very distant, possibility. (W Post, 11/3/67, A25)
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