Oct 10 1967
From The Space Library
President Johnson, in White House ceremony marking entry into force of space law treaty, greeted ambassadors from 13 countries and key US. officials and renewed America's offer to cooperate fully with any nation in exploring planets and solar system, using tracking facilities, mapping the earth, exchanging bioscientific information, and communicating via comsats. Responding, Soviet Ambassador Anatoli F. Dobrynin said: "These [international legal] principles . . . are aimed at insuring peaceful activities of states in outer space for the benefit of all mankind. We hope that [the treaty] will contribute to the settlement of major international problems still facing the mankind on our planet." British Ambassador Sir Patrick Dean said: "We welcome [the treaty] all the more because the treaty removes outer space from the effect of the rivalry and dissension between nations. . . . It is a treaty about . . . rule of law and the extension of that field within which international law is to regulate the conflicts of interests, which arise between men and nations." Secretary of State Dean Rusk said: "The treaty also takes steps to limit and reduce the competition in armaments, a terrible burden on peoples everywhere." He added: "It is evident that men and nations can, in fact, achieve the maturity necessary to embody in binding form their points of agreement, despite political differences in other areas. (PD, 10/16/67,1425-8)
Planned launch of Apollo 4/Saturn V for Oct. 17 was postponed until early November, according to NASA spokesmen at ETR, reported UPI. Troubles with ground support equipment had stalled countdown rehearsal. Once rehearsal was finished, engineers would evaluate results and set date for unmanned launch. (UPI, W Post, 10/11/67, A18)
R/A Albert C. Read (USN, Ret.), commander of first heavier-than-air aircraft to cross the Atlantic (USN NC-4 seaplane) , died in Miami, Fla. He had received the Distinguished Service Medal for the 4,500-mi, 23-day flight he made in May 1919, from Rockaway, N.Y., to Plymouth, U.K. and in 1965 was elected to the Aviation Hall of Fame in Dayton. (W Post, 10/12/67, EK)
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