Jul 31 1965
From The Space Library
DOD refused request by television networks to present live coverage of the recovery portion of the Gemini V flight scheduled for Aug. 19. Equipment necessary to set up a portable ground station on the aircraft carrier U.S.S. Lake Champlain "might interfere with operational requirements and shipboard communications," DOD said. The networks had intended to send pictures to EARLY BIRD I satellite for relay to the Andover, Me, ground station. (NYT, 7/31/65, 35)
First anniversary of historic mission of taking and relaying to earth the first closeup pictures of the lunar surface, by NASA's RANGER VII. (EPH)
Pictures of Mars taken by MARINER IV during the July 14 flyby received editorial comment in the Washington Post: "... If some people are disappointed because MARINER IV did not produce any conclusive documentation on the existence of the long-suspected life on Mars, it should be remembered that this was not one of MARINER IV's objectives. Even the Tiros, circling earth at far less distance from its surface than MARINER IV was from Mars, has indicated only once in the thousands of pictures taken that the life we know exists here actually can be spotted from far out in space." (Wash. Post, 7/31/65)
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