Jul 21 1966
From The Space Library
US. and U.S.S.R. agreed in discussions at Geneva to treaty article on exploration of space barring any state from claiming sovereignty over space, including the moon and planets. Article was also approved by 28-nation U.N. Legal Subcommittee drawing up treaty from draft accords submitted by US. and U.S.S.R. Subcommittee also accepted article binding states to conduct space exploration in accordance with international law and in the interest of international peace. (Reuters, NYT, 7/22/66, 8)
Maj. William J. Knight (USAF) flew X-15 No. 2 to 3,614 mph (mach 5.12) and 192,300-ft. altitude for pilot altitude buildup, star tracker experiments, and base drag studies. (X-15 Proj. Off.)
House adopted joint House-Senate conference report (H.R. 14324) on 1967 NASA authorization by voice vote. Authorization was $5,000,419, 000. (CR, 7/21/66, 15887-96)
MSFC awarded Emerson Electric Co. a 10-wk., $34,990 study contract to determine feasibility of recovering small metallic coupons from wings of PEGASUS III meteoroid-detection satellite, orbited by NASA July 30, 1965. Using sample wing with attached coupons, Emerson would analyze possible approaches an astronaut could make to satellite and types of equipment he would need to perform coupon-retrieving mission. (MSFC Release 66-162)
Application of space age technology to traffic control was near, Chairman of the Board of the Ford Motor Co. Henry Ford II told the Young Men's Business Club of Greater New Orleans meeting in New York. He said plans would soon be presented to the Government for a nationwide traffic control system based on earth survey satellites for aerial reconnaissance. They would be linked by computers to urban traffic control centers and "to the stoplight in the corner and even the car radio. . . . As fantastic as it may seem, we believe such a system will be technically feasible and economically sound." Technical capacity for development of system had been gained from experience of the Philco Corp., a Ford subsidiary, in designing and operating MSC's Flight Control Center. Philco's communication system was being used on Gemini 'missions. (NYT, 7/22/66, 27)
NSF announced that, under $5.4-million contract awarded Univ. of California's Scripps Institute of Oceanography, scientists would bring up core samples from 1,000 to 3,000 ft. below Atlantic and Pacific ocean floors. Two-year drilling program, to begin in 1967, was outgrowth of Project Mohole. (Wash. Post, 8/22/66, A7)
The Will Rogers, 41st and last of Nation's Polaris ballistic missile submarines, was christened in Groton, Conn., ceremony by Mrs. Hubert H. Humphrey. Launching culminated 8«-yr. construction program of nuclear-powered submarines capable of indefinite submergence and equipped with 16 2,500-mi.-range missiles with nuclear warheads. (Baldwin, NYT, 7/21/66, 5)
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