Jul 7 1966
From The Space Library
NASA Nike-Apache sounding rocket launched from Thumba Equatorial Rocket Launching Station carried proton magnetometer and Langmuir probe to 104-mi. (167-km.) altitude in NASA-Indian National Commission for Space Research (INCOSPAR) experiment to determine intensity of ionospheric electric current system near magnetic equator. Payload had been developed by Physical Research Laboratory in Ahmedabad, India; NASA provided launcher, ground telemetry system, and rocket. (NASA Rpt. SRL)
NASA established new program offices at MSC and MSFC to "handle the increasing level of activity involving Apollo Applications." Offices headed by George M. Low at MSC and Leland Belew at MSFC-would manage "activities concerned with projects using Apollo hardware for purposes in addition to the manned lunar landing." To provide "program management and direction" for MSFC's consolidated research and technology program and to coordinate activities with NASA Hq., MSFC established new Experiments Office headed by Dr. William G. Johnson. (NASA Release 66-172; MSFC Release 66-151)
NASA and ComSatCorp had signed agreement for satellite communications services to support Apollo program. ComSatCorp would provide voice/ data channels and teletype channels in synchronous satellites to be positioned over Pacific and Atlantic oceans by NASA. Draft tariff filed by ComSatCorp with FCC estimated that cost of services would be $8.95 million annually. (NASA Release 66-178; ComSatCorp Release)
NASA awarded Zia Corp., Las Cruces, N. Mex., a one-year, $5-million, cost-plus-award-fee contract to provide maintenance, operation, and miscellaneous services at WSMR. (NASA Release 66-173)
1966 AIAA fellows were selected in recognition of prolonged, significant achievements in aerospace technology: Dr. Robert Jastrow, Director of NASA's Goddard Institute for Space Studies; Christopher C. Kraft, Jr., Director of Flight Operations, MSC; Prof. Frank E. Marble, Cal Tech's Guggenheim Aeronautical Laboratory; Dr. George E. Mueller, NASA Associate Administrator for Manned Space Flight; Francis M. Rogallo, LRC; Prof. Ascher H. Shapiro, MIT; Dean E. Wooldridge, director of TRW, Inc.; and Robert B. Young, vice president of Aerojet-General Corp. Awards would be presented Dec. 2 at AIAA's annual meeting in Boston. (NYT, 7/8/66, 12)
Pratt & Whitney Div., United Aircraft Corp., had signed agreement with U.K.'s Bristol Siddeley Engines, Ltd., and France's SNECMA to develop jet engine for twin-engine air-bus being designed to transport 250 to 300 passengers on "medium-range" flights-as from London to Rome-by 1970 or 1972. (WSJ, 7/7/66, 32)
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