Jul 27 1966
From The Space Library
Eleven scientists formerly associated with the International Geophysical Year (IGY) and International Quiet Sun Year (IQSY) urged permanent cooperation in international studies of earth in letter to the London Times: "These worldwide cooperative scientific projects have shown conclusively that however many and serious are the political problems that trouble the human race, it is possible for all the nations of the world to work closely together in great enterprises for the common good." Signers included US. representatives on IGY Committee Dr. Lloyd V. Berkner, former chairman of the NAS Space Science Board, and Dr. Homer E. Newell, NASA Associate Director for Space Science and Applications, and U.S.S.R. representatives Dr. Vladimir V. Belossov and N. V. Pushkov. (NYT, 7/27/66, 12)
USAF pilots Col. Robert L. Stephens and L/Col. Walter F. Daniel received official certificates from President Johnson for establishing three absolute and six jet-class world records May 1, 1965, in W-12A aircraft. Col. Stephens had set new speed record of more than 2,070 mph and new altitude record of 80,259 ft. Col. Daniel had set new speed records for straight course of over 2,000 mph and on closed course of 1,688 mph. Records were formerly held by U.S.S.R. (Pres. DOC., 8/ 1/66, 1000)
Sydney (Australia) Univ. physicist Stuart Thomas Butler said that U.S., U.K., and U.S.S.R. were studying the possibility of using a "nuclear rocket to prevent the asteroid Icarus from colliding with earth, UPI reported. Icarus would pass within four million miles of earth in June 1968. Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory, world clearinghouse for all astrophysical information, said it had no knowledge the three nations were studying the possibility. Two authorities on asteroids,. Dr. Paul Herget, Univ. of Cincinnati, and Dr. Gerald Clemence, Yale Univ., said there was not "one chance in a billion" Icarus would strike earth. (UPI, Chic. Trib., 7/28/66)
Westinghouse Electric Corp.'s Defense and Space Center had developed a 7¬-lb. TV camera that could be carried inside Apollo spacecraft and by astronauts as they explored the lurain. Prototype had been delivered to NASA and a commitment obtained for live TV coverage. (Gibbons, WSJ, 7/27/66, 1)
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