Oct 11 1966
From The Space Library
NASA Aerobee 150 sounding rocket launched from WSMR reached 89-mi. (144km.) altitude in NASA-American Science and Engineering, Inc., experiment to make a high-resolution survey of celestial x-ray sources. Rocket and instrumentation performed satisfactorily. (NASA Rpt. SRL)
NASC Executive Secretary Dr. Edward C. Welsh, speaking before Metropolitan Washington Board of Trade's Science Industry Committee, replied to criticism that the national space program is highly expensive and wasteful: "The national space program is the largest concerted effort undertaken by any nation to advance the frontiers of human knowledge. As such, it is a seedbed of invention, a spur to our productivity, a source of insurance for our national security, a stimulus to learning, and a world-wide ambassador for peace. Because of it, our chances of improving medical research and finding a cure for cancer or heart disease are greater, not less. Because of it, our chances of improving our educational system and solving a vast range of social problems are greater, not less. "The issue is really not that of substituting space progress for progress in some other worthy field, because the space program contributes importantly to advances in practically all other lines of endeavor, and it stimulates the national economy at the same time. . . ." (Text)
Lockheed Missiles and Space Co. engineer Dede Sonnichsen claimed six new world records when he flew an AX-4 hot air balloon to 21,000-ft. altitude from Tracy, Calif., and landed it 15 mi. away. Of 10 hot air balloon classifications, Sonnichsen's claims were to altitude records in AX-4, 5, 6,7, and 8 categories and to establishment of record for 15-mi. distance. (L.A. Times, 10/12/66)
International cooperation on patents procedures and mechanized information retrieval was urged at Washington, D. C., meeting of National Association of Manufacturers' Patents Committee. U.S. Commissioner of Patents Edward J. Brenner said that "most of the search or examining work in anywhere from 15% to 80% of the applications . . . could be eliminated" if patent offices exchanged information. (Beller, Tech. Wk., 11/7/66, 20)
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