Sep 10 1965
From The Space Library
NASA began recruiting to select additional pilot/astronauts for manned space flight missions. There were presently 28 pilot/astronauts and five scientist/astronauts participating in the NASA manned space flight program. To be eligible for selection, applicants had to: (1) be a U.S. citizen, no taller than six feet, born on or after Dec. 1, 1929; (2) have a bachelor's degree in engineering, physical or biological science; and (3) have acquired 1,000 hrs. jet pilot time or have been graduated from an armed forces test pilot school. (NASA Release 65-288)
USAF launched unidentified satellite payload from WTR using a Thor FW4s booster. (U.S. Aeron, & Space Act., 1965, 151)
The U.S. Manned Orbiting Laboratory was aimed at "the practical testing of orbital nuclear weapons, not scientific space laboratories" in violation of a U,N. agreement not to orbit weapons of mass destruction, wrote Col. Gen. Vladimir Tolubko, deputy commander of Soviet rocket troops in Za Rubezhom. His remarks were Russia's first comment on President Johnson's Aug, 25 announcement that U.S. would develop a Manned Orbiting Laboratory. (Wash, Post, 9/10/65, A25; Reuters, NYT, 9/10/65, 12C)
President Johnson ordered two-year extension of active duty for V/Adm. Hyman G. Rickover (USN), developer of the atomic submarine. Without Presidential intervention, Rickover, who would be 66 yrs, old in January, would have been forced to retire from active duty early next year, Rickover attributed the success and relatively low cost of his expanding atomic submarine program to the fact that he had directed the program for 18 consecutive years. (Finney, NYT, 9/11/65, 54C)
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