Aug 20 1968
From The Space Library
Nike-Apache sounding rocket launched by NASA from WSMR carried Dudley Observatory experiment to 95.8-mi (154.3-km) altitude to determine micrometeoroid flux in absence of an active meteoroid shower from comparison with data from Aug. 12 launch during meteoroid shower. Rocket and instruments performed satisfactorily. Payload was recovered undamaged. (NASA Rpt SRL)
NASA- issued Apollo Status Summary: Apollo 7 spacecraft would be electrically mated to Saturn IB launch vehicle at KSC Complex 34 next week. In Apollo 503 program, command module was scheduled to be mated to service module after Aug. 20. The three stages and instrument unit of Apollo 8 launch vehicle were mated at Complex 34 and undergoing tests. Modification and retests continued on Lunar Module 3 ascent and descent stages and modification and checkout on Saturn V 2nd stage for 504 mission. (Text)
Los Angeles International Airport officials had initiated $300,000 test program to insulate 25 nearby houses against noise from jet aircraft taking off and landing 1,700 times per day. In effort to meet increasing resentment which had resulted in lawsuits against airport totaling more than $300 million in past six years, airport officials would soundproof roofs, walls, doors, windows, and floors. Airport would also construct $170,000 "hush house" with four-inch-thick fiber glass panels where jet engines could be run at full power without disturbing nearby residents. (AP, W Star, 8/20/68, All)
Three scientists were named winners of 1967 Atoms for Peace Award: Sigvard Eklund of Sweden, Director-General of International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) ; Abdus Salam of Pakistan, Director of IAEA's International Center for Theoretical Physics in Trieste; and Henry De-Wolf Smyth, U.S. Representative to IAEA and former AEC Commissioner. Presentation of gold medal and $30,000 honorarium to each would be made in New York Oct. 14. (AP, NYT, 8/22/68, 61)
French test pilot Andre Turcat successfully piloted Anglo-French supersonic transport Concorde in 1.2-mi first formal runway test at Toulouse-Blagnac. Aircraft, equipped with Sud-Aviation fuselage and four Bristol-Siddely engines, was scheduled for fall maiden flight and 1971 production delivery. (W Post, 8/21/68, A16; Av Wk, 8/26/68)
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