Sep 5 1966
From The Space Library
Administration officials had no indication that U.S.S.R. was man-rating a new booster for manned lunar landing program, Technology Week reported. They also doubted reports that U.S.S.R. would attempt landing mission in October 1967--fiftieth anniversary of Bolshevik Revolution-but anticipated another Soviet manned earth-orbital flight in 1966. ‘‘(Tech. Wk., 9/5/66,3)’’
Gen. Bernard A. Schriever, who retired as AFSC Commander Aug. 31, was saluted by Technology Week: “The nation owes an immense debt to Gen. Schriever, for he and a handful of other far-sighted men almost literally dragged this country into the missile era at a time when there were few who believed that the intercontinental missile was a feasible weapon. “Moreover, once the decision had been made it was to Gen. Schriever that the task fell of putting together the organization to tackle such a formidable assignment. “The success story that followed is well-known in the industry and the nation.. . . ‘‘(Coughlin, Tech. Wk., 9/5/66, 50)’’
Future of consortium agreements between U.K. and European nations was still uncertain despite success of European Launcher Development Organization (ELDO) and progress of Concorde supersonic transport program, L. L. Doty reported in Aviation Week. “. . . dissensions over the distribution of work loads, allocation of procurement, financial sharing and miscalculations of projected costs are threatening present consortiums, and possibly discouraging formation of others.” In addition, nationalism “which is accelerating the drive for independence in aerospace activities . . . tend[s] to draw governments away from the consortium principle. . . .” ‘‘(Doty, Av. Wk., 9/5/66, 29)’’
Dr. Clifford A. Spohn (Col., USAF, Ret.) had been appointed director of operations at ESSA’S National Satellite Center, succeeding Arthur W. Johnson, who had been appointed deputy director of the facility. ‘‘(ESSA Release 66-8)’’
Prevailing theory that nuclear particles are symmetrical throughout nature, challenged two months ago by Dr. Paolo Franzini, Columbia Univ., and his wife Dr. Juliet Lee-Franzini, State Univ. of New York [see June 271 , was reinforced by results of experiment conducted in Geneva by European Center for Nuclear Research (CERN) scientists and reported at Rochester Conference at Univ. of California, Berkeley. Validation of Franzini discovery, which had stirred wide interest in scientific circles, would force physicists to derive new or more sophisticated explanations for basic nature of matter. CERN experiment, based on analysis of 10,665 photographs of eta-meson decay into three pions, found no significant difference in energy levels of positive and negative pions. Franzini had observed greater energy in positive pion than negative. Franzini and CERN groups planned further experiments, and similar test would be conducted by Columbia Univ. physicist Leon Lederman. ‘‘(NYT, 9/6/66, 30)’’
“Nobody has yet found any space goals that will stir the Europeans the way manned space flight and the race toward a lunar landing have generated tremendous technical impetus in the US. and U.S.S.R.,” Robert Hotz reported in Aviation Week. “If new formulae can he found to fit changing European requirements, the prospects for applying the spearhead technology of the aerospace industry will never be brighter. For the United States, this will require a more realistic government policy in permitting more first-line technology to be exported to our allies. For Europe, it will require a more realistic appraisal of how its technical resources can be applied to compete successfully in the world market.” ‘‘(Hotz, Av. Wk., 9/5/66,21)’’
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