Oct 3 1966
From The Space Library
USC&GS ship Oceanographer, $9.2-million "floating laboratory," left Jacksonville, Fla., on 11-week, 14,000-mi. expedition to conduct marine scientific studies off eastern coast of South America and participate in observations of total eclipse of the sun Nov. 12. Expedition was being conducted by ESSA. (ESSA Release 66-57)
Absence of statement by President Johnson and West German Chancellor Erhard after their September meeting in Washington, D.C., on suggested US.-Western Europe program of unmanned exploration of Jupiter indicated that the proposal had been "killed for the foreseeable future," Technology Week speculated. (Tech. Wk., 10/3/66, 3)
Anticipating launching of Pacific satellite in late 1966, ComSatCorp filed tariff with FCC for Pacific services. Monthly rates ComSatCorp would charge authorized common carriers would be $2,700 between US. mainland and Hawaii; $4,900 from US. mainland to Japan; and $3,800 from Hawaii to Japan. Tariff for service to NASA for Project Apollo would be equivalent to level of charges applied to other commercial satellite channels. ComSatCorp also said it planned reduced rates for Atlantic services, to apply when second satellite became operational. (ComSatCorp Release)
M/G John D. Stevenson (USAF, Ret.), former commander of Joint Task Force Eight of the Defense Atomic Support Agency, was appointed Special Assistant to NASA Associate Administrator for Manned Space Flight Dr. George E. Mueller to assist with general management of manned space flight activities. (NASA Ann.)
Tonnage of US. bombs dropped on Vietnam in 1966 would surpass that dropped by US. in the entire Pacific during World War II or during three years of the Korean War, Ted Sell reported in the World Journal Tribune. U.S. planned to drop 638,000 tons of bombs in 1966 compared to 502,781 tons dropped by USAF in the Pacific between 1941 and 1945. (Sell, WJT, 10/3/66, 4)
October 3-8: MSFC-sponsored space sciences exhibit tracing history of rocketry into the future of space exploration, with models of rockets, rocket engines, and spacecraft, was featured at Alabama State Fair in Birmingham. (MSFC Release 66-224)
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