Feb 6 1967
From The Space Library
U.S.S.R. sought one-year postponement of meeting of U.N: Conference on Exploration and Peaceful Uses of Outer Space, scheduled for Sept. 11-23 in Vienna. Soviet Academy of Sciences member V. A. Kotelnikov told preparatory committee meeting in New York that U.S.S.R. needed more time for preparation of scientific data and papers. Request caused considerable surprise among U.N. delegates because U.S.S.R. had been chief supporter of resolution, passed by General Assembly Dec. 16, 1966, to hold meeting in September. (NYT, 2/7/67, 30; Estabrook, W Post, 2/8/67)
Japan launched three-stage Lambda 3H rocket from Uchinoura Space Center, Kyushu Island, to 1,337-mi (2,142-km) altitude record altitude for Japanese rocket. The 9.5-ton vehicle carried instruments to obtain nine types of scientific data on the Van Allen belts and the ionosphere; all equipment functioned normally except electronic thermometer. The 29-min flight ended when rocket's 3rd stage impacted 1,400 mi down-range in the Pacific. (AP, NYT, 2/7/67,27)
President Johnson presented 1966 National Medal of Science to 11 scientists and engineers at White House ceremony and praised their efforts to make new discoveries: "Today, our enormous investment in science and research is our evidence of our faith that science can not only make man richer-but science can make man better." Awards were announced Dec. 24, 1966. (PD, 2/13/67, 194-5)
FAA met with 11 US. airlines and one leasing company to discuss financing of SST. Following conference, FAA Administrator William F. McKee announced that airline representatives had "indicated general agreement with the concept of assisting with financing of the prototype development phase." (FAA Release 67-11 )
NASA appointed M/G John D. Stevenson (USAF, Ret.) Director of Mission Operations, OMSF, succeeding Everett E. Christensen who returned to Lockheed Missiles and Space Co. General Stevenson had been serving as special assistant to Dr. George E. Mueller, NASA Associate Administrator for Manned Space Flight. (NASA Release 67-23)
USAF would not use pure oxygen atmosphere on its manned space flights, partly because of the fire hazard, announced L/Col. John W. Ord, Director of Crew Test Evaluation at USM School of Aerospace Medicine. Ord said Manned Orbiting Laboratory (MOL) program would use mixture of oxygen and helium because it was lightweight and conducted heat away from the spacecraft. (Lockett, W Post, 2/7/67)
February 6-9: "Lectures in Aerospace Medicine" conference was held at USAF School of Aerospace Medicine (SAM) , Brooks AFB, Tex. Dr. Hubertus Strughold, chief scientist at SAM, recommended that astronauts preparing for long-duration interplanetary space flights undergo "prophylactic surgery" to prevent appendicitis or gall bladder attacks and prophylactic dental work to guard against abscessed teeth. Dr. Alfred C. Koestler, head of Holloman AFB's Altered Atmosphere Pressure Laboratory, reported that 18 chimpanzees had survived rapid decompression to the near vacuum of 150,000 ft for 31/2 min without any noticeable residual effects following four-hour recovery period. Tests offered hope that an astronaut outside his spacecraft could be rescued if his spacesuit were to spring a leak. Bends, the painful decompression sickness that cripples deepsea divers, would imperil astronauts leaving a spacecraft with "mixed-gas" atmosphere to work in space, L/Col. Robert C. McIver suggested. His conclusion was based on series of experiments in which 74 healthy men underwent a total of 388 exposures to compression; one fourth developed symptoms of bends. (USAF Proj Off; AFSC Release 274.66; W Star, 2J8/67, AS; W Post, 2/10/67, A4; WSJ, 2/15/67,1; UPI, NYT, 2/24/67,53)
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