Jul 29 1967
From The Space Library
Seventh attempt to launch ELDO's Europa I rocket from Woomera, Australia, failed when mechanical fault developed in release system of the French Coralie 2nd stage. (Reuters, C Trib, 7/31/67)
President Johnson had approved USN recommendation that Navy Navigation Satellite System be released for use by US. civilian ships and for commercial manufacture of shipboard receivers, Vice President Hubert H. Humphrey told a group of marine scientists at Bowdoin College, Brunswick, Me. "Our all-weather satellite system has been in use since 1964 by the Navy and has enabled fleet units to pinpoint their positions anywhere on the earth. The same degree of navigational accuracy will now be available to our non-military ships." Humphrey noted that close allies would probably request permission to purchase US. receivers and said "policy and procedures for responding to these requests are currently under consideration." (Text, Wilford, NYT, 7/30/67,1,28)
Supersonic aircraft fares should be 25% higher than subsonic fares, ATA president Stuart G. Tipton, touring facilities where Anglo-French Concorde supersonic aircraft was being built, told a Paris press conference. He predicted that $18-million price of the Concorde would make it necessary for airlines to impose a premium fare at first. Tipton believed French prototype would be flown on schedule in February 1968. (NYT, 7/29/67,38)
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