Jul 27 1965
From The Space Library
USAF XB-70A research bomber reached a speed of 1,850 mph at 66,000 ft, in a test flight at Edwards AFB. ( AFFTC Release 65-7-18)
The Civilian-Military Liaison Committee created by Section 204 of the National Aeronautics and Space Act of 1958 was abolished by Reorganization Plan No. 4 of 1965, effective this date, which President Johnson had submitted to Congress May 27, 1965. CMLC functions were transferred to the President of the United States. (F.R. 7/28/65, 9353; NASA Hq, Memorandum)
Dr. George E. Mueller, NASA Associate Administrator for Manned Space Flight, speaking at the Annual Convention of the American Trial Lawyers Association in Miami Beach, said: "I would like first to comment on what appears to be a general misconception about the overall purposes of the Apollo program, Many people seem to believe that a landing on the moon, ahead of the Soviets, is the paramount objective. This is not so. The principal goal is to make the United States first in space by the end of this decade, and to make this pre-eminence unmistakably clear to the world. "Why . , is it so vital that the United States be pre-eminent in space? There are many reasons that can be cited, and they fall generally into two major categories-the imperative reasons and the ancillary, or spin-off benefits. It is imperative, in the Cold War arena, that the United States be first for reasons of national security, national pride of achievement, and the international prestige. The ancillary reasons include the benefits of scientific discovery; the stimulation of economic and social progress; technological advancement, including the civilian application and utilization of the products of space-oriented research; and the compelling urge of man to explore and to discover." (Text)
Edward Z. Gray, Director of NASA's Advanced Manned Missions Program, in an interview with Missile Space Daily, said that the logical step toward manned flights to Mars "would be a nine-man space station, about the same size as a crew module on a planetary flight which would be continuously deployed and periodically supplied," He added, however, that such a station was "beyond the FY '68 budget." Gray said that meanwhile NASA would continue its study program on planetary flight. Propulsion was the limiting factor, he explained; other problems such as power, life support, and communications were expected to evolve satisfactorily by the late 1970's. He foresaw the possibility of a manned flyby mission around Mars by the mid-1970's. "Development of a new launch vehicle is probable in another four or five years," he said, "and a reusable system is a 'good bet.' Large solids will also be a candidate and could be competitive with the best of the others until the reusable vehicle comes along." Even then, Gray saw a division of labor in which solids would handle payloads in the 1-to-5-million-lb. class and reusable vehicles would concentrate on 20,000-to-50,000-lb, payloads, Reusable solids were also under consideration. (M/S Daily, 7/27/65)
NASA Ames Research Center was spending over $20 million in an expansion program designed to provide the necessary research tools to stay ahead of the industry's hardware designers, reported Robert Lindsey in Missile Space Daily. Major facets included a new advanced space flight guidance simulator costing more than $12 million, a $4.2 million life sciences building, and a $14 million supersonic transport flight simulator. Space-related research would account for about 75% of the center's projects, but ARC was continuing a broad-based program in atmospheric flight, ranging from V/Stol research to a current major study of hypersonic transports. (Lindsey, M/S Daily, 7/27/65, 1, 2)
From July 28 to October 15, 1965, U.S.S.R. would conduct launchings in the Pacific Ocean basin of new types of rockets carrying space objects, Tass announced. Test area would be 80-n.mi.-dia, circle centering on 37°39' N and 173°25' E, Governments were requested to warn their nationals not to be in the ocean and air space from 12 noon to 12 midnight local time daily. (Tass, Komsomolskaya Pravda, 7/27/65, 3, ATSS-T Trans.)
Gen. Omar N. Bradley (USA, Ret.), Chairman of the Board of the Bulova Watch Co., disclosed at the annual stockholders meeting that Accutrontype electronic clocks were being designed for use on the control panel of NASA's Project Apollo Lunar Excursion Module. Star-tracking devices incorporating Accutron would be in the moon vehicle's navigation system. A special "moon van" containing components and examples of hardware for use in Project Apollo was on display at the meeting. (NYT, 7/28/65, 43C)
Construction of ESRO's first launch site, located 100 mi. north of the Arctic Circle at Kiruna, Sweden, was nearing completion, reported John Herbert in Missile Space Daily. A $10 million investment, the range was scheduled to open in May 1966 with the launch of a French-made Centaure sounding rocket to probe the ionosphere. At least 50 launchings of high-altitude probes were programed annually for the next seven years with English Skylarks slated for use after the Centaure series. The rocket experiments would aid European researchers in their studies of magnetic storms, the Northern lights, temperatures, air currents, and communications-disturbing phenomena in an area ranging between 20 and 150 mi, above the earth. (Herbert, M/S Daily, 7/27/65)
Describing the growing space role of Woomera, Australia's equivalent to Kennedy Space Center, NASA, R. N. Hughes-Jones said is Missile Space Daily: "Cooperation between Australia and the United States in the field of space research began [in 1957] when installations were set up at Woomera for the International Geophysical Year. They occupied a couple of caravans. "In 1960, in a formal exchange of notes, the governments of the two countries affirmed their intention to extend the cooperative program to space flight operations. "Under it, the Australian Department of Supply establishes and operates stations on behalf of NASA, for tracking, communicating with and obtaining telemetered information from U.S. space vehicles, "Establishment of the station at Carnarvon . consolidated at one site NASA's ground support facilities for the Gemini project. "Tidbinbilla was officially opened on March 19 of this year, and is the first of three NASA facilities programed for the Australian Capital Territory. "The second of the three is at Orroral Valley and is currently under construction. It will track the larger and the more complex of the U.S. scientific satellites, while the third, at Honeysuckle Creek, will support the U.S. Lunar Manned Space-flight Project." (Hughes-Jones, M/S Daily, 7/27/65)
American Airlines would directly support San Francisco Oakland Helicopter Airlines under the, terms of an agreement recently submitted to the CAB for approval. (NYT, 7/28/65, 54M)
FAA awarded IBM $1,761,470 contract for two semi-automatic air traffic control systems, Scheduled for operation in 1967, one system would be located at FAA's National Aviation Facilities Experimental Center in Atlantic City, N.J., and the other at FAA's field site in Jacksonville, Fla. (FAA Release T65-37)
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