Jul 21 1967
From The Space Library
Space News for this day. (2MB PDF)
A new star just bright enough to be visible to the naked eye had been discovered in the constellation Delphinius by G. E. D. Alcock of Peterborough, U.K. Discovery was confirmed by M. P. Candy, British Astronomical Society, who estimated star's brightness as magnitude five, which is near the limit of visual observation. (SciServ, NYT, 7/21/67)
Wind tunnel tests at USAF's Arnold Engineering Development Center (AEDC) in Tullahoma, Tenn., indicated "NASA has miscalculated the control spacemen would have over the Apollo spacecraft at the critical point it reenters the Earth's atmosphere," the Nashville Tennessean wrote in a copyrighted story. Loss of control "means that the Moon spacecraft's maneuvering ability would be cut, perhaps to a dangerous degree." Results of tests, which had been forwarded to MSC, "will cause NASA to alter its computer projections of the Apollo's reentry path." (AP, H Chron, 7/21/67)
July 14 promotion of career administrator Herman Pollack from Acting Director to Director of State Dept.'s Office of International Scientific and Technological Affairs was accepted reluctantly by the scientific community, Science reported. "The role and potential of the office . . . [is a] fuzzily defined relationship between science, technology, and foreign policy," and the scientific community had tended to think of the office as its own. ". . . many elder statesmen of science . . . are not altogether pleased to find . . . [the directorship] in the hands of a nonscientist," but have admitted grudgingly "that Pollack has done an outstanding job [as Acting Director] and that the office is likely to improve still further now that he is free of the uncertainties of an acting appointment." (Science, 7/21/67,292)
Center for European Research (CERN) , West Germany, and France signed an agreement in Geneva to share the estimated $19.5-million cost of constructing a bubble chamber in which particles of smashed atoms could be tracked photographically to provide further information on the properties of matter. Scheduled to be built at CERN Hq. near Geneva, the structure would be cylindrical, about 11.5 ft in dia and 10 ft high-the largest bubble chamber in existence. (NYT, 7/22/67, 11)
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