Jan 7 1965
From The Space Library
MARINER IV was 70 million mi. on its 325-million-mi. flight to Mars after 40 days in space. All systems were operating normally (AP, Phil, Eve. Bull., 1/7/65)
Dr. William A. Lee of NASA Manned Spacecraft Center announced new launch schedule for Saturn IB and Saturn V: 1966, three unmanned and one manned launches of Saturn IB; 1967, two unmanned Saturn V launches, one manned Saturn IB, LEM test with Saturn IB, one manned flight with complete Apollo spacecraft, using Saturn IB, and one manned flight using either Saturn IB or Saturn V. whichever was farthest along in development; 1968, a dress rehearsal for the lunar mission in earth orbit for one week with astronauts participating. "Then the moon," said Dr. Lee. "We have a fighting chance to make it by 1970 and also stay within the $20 billion price tag set for the mission by former President Kennedy." (AP, Wash. Eve. Star, 1/7/65)
NASA Administrator James E. Webb swore in R. Walter Riehlman, former Republican member of the House of Representatives from New York's 34th District I Syracuse) as a consultant on policy matters. (NASA Release 65-9)
ComSatCorp asked nine foreign companies to propose studies of launch vehicles for medium altitude communications satellites in addition to the 16 American companies approached a month ago. The deadline for submitting proposals was extended from Jan. 11 to Feb. 1. (ComSatCorp)
AEC report said that nuclear fuel aboard a spacecraft which failed to go into orbit last April 21 had burned up harmlessly at high altitude. This was a reply to Russian and other critics who had accused the U.S. of causing radiation hazards by putting atomic generators aboard spacecraft. The generator involved was a Snap-9A aboard a Navy navigation satellite launched from Vandenberg AFB, Calif. (UPI, Phil. Eve. Bull., 1/8/65)
Sen. Leverett Saltonstall (R.-Mass.) introduced in the Senate a bill designed to set aside March 16 of every year in honor of Dr. Robert Hutchings Goddard, "the father of modern rocketry." The bill was referred to the Committee on the Judiciary. (CR, 1/7/65, 283)
Vice Adm. H. G. Rickover (USN) spoke before the Publishers' Lunch Club of New York. In his speech Admiral Rickover said: "How to resolve the antithesis between technology and individual liberty; how to insure that technology will be beneficial, not harmful, to man, to society, and to our democratic institutions-this, I would say, is a public question. I raise it here because I believe the members of this audience are particularly well qualified to explore this problem. In your business the conflict between technology and liberty -so prevalent everywhere else in our society-is muted, if not absent altogether. "Improvements in the mechanics of producing and selling books have not diminished the importance of the author. Your success still depends on him. He cannot be rendered obsolete by automation. The human factor therefore continues to outweigh the technical. As in the past, your main function is to discover talent and help bring it to fruition. You know that liberty enhances creativity, that men with a special competence must be allowed to follow their own judgment. . . . "How to make technology most useful to ourselves and our society, yet prevent it from controlling our lives-that is the problem. The problem is aggravated by the bureaucratization of American life, itself largely a result of technology." . (Text, CR, 1/29/65, 1522-24)
USAF announced that AFSC Space Systems Div. had awarded a $1,783,500 increment to an existing contract for procurement of standard launch vehicle boosters to Douglas Aircraft Co., Inc. (DOD Release 8-65)
Britain would go ahead with the $880-million U.K.-France project to build the Concorde supersonic airliner, according to the London Daily Express. Two Concorde prototypes, and possibly as many as six, would be built with work shared by the British Aircraft Corp. and France's Sud Aviation. There had been no official French response to British Labor government's proposal that the Concorde project be cut back, but French government as well as British union leaders were said to be hostile to the proposed "review." (AP, Wash. Eve. Star, 1/7/65; Av. Wk., 1/11/65, 32)
Julius E. Kuczma, executive secretary of the U.S. Labor-Management Government Commission, said his group had decided to hold a hearing and take any steps necessary to resolve the labor dispute that had halted construction work at Cape Kennedy last month. (UPI, Orl. Sen., 1/8/65)
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