May 21 1965
From The Space Library
U.S. and Argentina jointly announced plans to collaborate in launching weather rockets to gain information about hemispheric weather patterns, Under terms of an agreement, Argentina would provide launching facilities, would transport rockets and equipment from the U.S. where they would be manufactured, and would assemble and launch the rockets, U.S. launchings would be made from Wallops Station; launching pads in Argentina would be at Chamical. Other Latin American countries had been invited to participate in the program. (AP, NYT, 5/22/65)
Vice President Humphrey, Chairman of the National Aeronautics and Space Council, said at the 16th annual luncheon for Albert Lasker Medical Journalism Awards in Washington, D.C,: "The most important race is not the space race or the arms race. It is the human race. If America can get excited about putting a man on the moon in 1970, why can't we get excited about putting a lot of people on their feet by the same date? . . . some day we will be able to tell the world that science has discovered the secrets of aging or of cancer or of muscular dystrophy or multiple sclerosis or mental retardation. That news will outrank in importance even the wonderful tidings that man has landed on the moon." (Text)
David N. Buell of Chrysler Corp, told the Aviation-Space Writers' Association Conference that an unmanned spacecraft could be launched to the sun by 1975 or 1980 with a modified Saturn IB/Centaur booster and that it could obtain information vital to space exploration and a better understanding of the universe. Buell envisioned the solar spacecraft as a biconal structure with the forward cone pointing toward the sun and acting as a sunshade, bolstered by refrigerants inside the craft. (UPI, Wash, Post, 5/23/65)
"MARINER IV, speeding toward Mars for a rendezvous in July, has knocked out the romantic notion that the ruddy planet is the site of a dying civilization millions of years older than ours and far wiser," wrote David Dietz in the Knoxville News-Sentinel. Continuing: "This theory holds that the planet is drying out, losing its atmosphere and its water supply and that the inhabitants have taken refuge in underground cities. "Well, if this is the case, one thing is certain. The Martians forgot to take their radios with them. For the past five months, MARINER IV has been sending a steady stream of radio chatter back to earth ... If little MARINER IV can do that, there is no apparent reason why the Martians couldn't do the same, providing, of course, that there are Martians of superior intelligence." (Dietz, Knoxville News-Sentinel, 5/21/65)
David H. Hoffman, aviation editor of the New York Herald Tribune and Arthur C. Clarke, British science writer, were cited by the Aviation-Space Writers' Association for outstanding articles in 1964. Mr. Hoffman received the James J. Strebig memorial award for his series on air safety, Mr. Clarke was honored for an article published in Life magazine on communications satellites. (N.Y, Her. Trib, 5/23/65)
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