Sep 7 1965
From The Space Library
Soviet Cosmonaut Aleksei Leonov was quoted by Zolnierz Wolnosci on the future Soviet space program: spacecraft would remain in orbit much longer and their crews would be larger; highly trained teams would assemble permanent orbital space stations, orbital laboratories, and interplanetary spacecraft while the remainder of the crews would work inside the craft, Spacecraft participating in these flights would rendezvous and dock, using a flexible concertina-like passageway. Leonov said problems still to be solved included transfer of crews for interplanetary flights, accomplishment of engineering work in space, and return of spacecraft to earth. (Badowski, Zolnierz Wolnosci, 9/7/65, 1)
Members of the House Committee on Science and Astronautics, meeting to consider H.J, Res, 597 providing for a monument to Dr. Robert Hutchings Goddard at Clark Univ. agreed to limit cost of the memorial to $150,000. (CR, 9/7/65, 23315)
New York Times editorialized: "The Aerospace Corporation, a multimillion-dollar nonprofit organization sponsored and financed by the Air Force, has been subject to a searching scrutiny by a House Armed Services subcommittee. Its report is a devastating indictment of Aerospace's financial management... "The abuses at Aerospace are mainly the fault of the Air Force, which indulged its prodigal offspring by failing to exercise any real control. Aerospace is only one of a growing number of Government-owned non-profit companies working on important defense assignments; there is no evidence that all are as expensive in their spending practices, but we agree with the subcommittee that it would be a good idea to examine the function and the costs of the rest and bring their fees under strict regulation. There is no reason for maintaining such operations if their work can be done cheaply and effectively either by the Government itself or by private enterprise." (NYT, 9/7/65, 34M)
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