Jun 26 1969
From The Space Library
Javelin sounding rocket launched by NASA from Natal, Brazil, carried Southwest Center for Advanced Studies experiment to 481.6-mi (775-kin) altitude to study ionosphere-protonosphere transition region by measuring vertical profiles of ionospheric parameters. Rocket and instruments functioned satisfactorily. Excellent data on electron temperature, ion temperature, and ion composition were obtained. (NASA Rpt SRL)
M/G Edmund F. O'Connor, Director of Program Management at MSFC, would return to duty with USAF after Apollo 11 mission, MSFC Deputy Director, Technical, Dr. Eberhard F. M. Rees, announced. Maj. O'Connor would bc replaced by Lee B. James, Manager of Saturn Program Office. (MSFC Release 69-155)
JPL Director, Dr. William H. Pickering, announced appointment of Dr. Clarence R. Gates as manager of JPL's newly established Mission Analysis Div. New division would incorporate Systems Analysis section, Systems Analysis Research section, and JPL Navigation Program which Dr. Gates had headed since 1968. (JPL Release 524)
Saturn V 1st stage (SBIC-11) caught on fire in test stand at Mississippi Test Facility during acceptance test, scheduled to last 125 secs. Test was terminated automatically after 96 secs when temperature on No. 3 engine turbopump exceeded limit. Fire was extinguished by fire-control system built into test stand after burning for over half hour. (Release 69-156)
NAS and NAE formed joint committee chaired by Gen. Bernard A. Schriever (USAF, Ret.) to advise HUD on scientific and technical aspects of "Operation Breakthrough"-HUD program to develop low-cost, mass-produced housing-and to encourage broad industrial and professional participation in program. (NAS-NRC-NAE News Rpt, 8-9/69, 1; NAS PIO)
Sealab III medical officer Cdr. Paul G. Linweaver said extreme cold-result of breathing helium gas under pressure-was major contributor to Feb. 17 death of Aquanaut Berry L. Cannon in USN's Man-in-the-Sea project. Autopsy reports had indicated Cannon had been asphyxiated by carbon dioxide from faulty breathing apparatus. Linweaver said Cannon was so cold he did not know anything was wrong with apparatus. (AP, NYT, 6/27/69, 17)
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