Dec 2 1966
From The Space Library
NASA Aerobee 150 sounding rocket was launched from WSMR to 142-mi. (229-km.) altitude to measure atmospheric composition and temperature at 62-to 124-mi. (100-to 200-km.) altitude range. (NASA Rpt. SRL)
NASA announced sponsorship during 1967 of seven specialized summer programs of research and study for about 245 college and university faculty members in engineering and science. Developed by NASA and American Society for Engineering Education, programs would combine space research at NASA centers and parallel seminar-type studies at adjacent universities. Fellowships would be available for about 225 faculty members. Participating were: (1) Univ. of Alabama, Auburn Univ., and MSFC; (2) Case Institute of Technology and LRC; (3) Univ. of Houston, Texas A&M Univ., and MSC; (4) Univ. of Maryland, Catholic Univ., and GSFC; (5) Virginia Associated Research Center (Univ. of Virginia, Virginia Polytechnic Institute, and College of William and Mary) and LaRC . Also, NASA would sponsor five-week summer faculty program in space physics at Yeshiva Univ. in cooperation with Goddard Institute of Space Studies. (NASA Release 66-305)
The Washington Post commented on criticism of NASA spending: "What an uproar there was in 1957 when Sputnik showed us we were second in space! The Eisenhower Administration was roundly condemned. Congressmen and Senators clamored for a stepped-up space program and promised all the money needed. President Kennedy, in his 1960 campaign . . . said repeatedly: `I am not satisfied to be second in space.' "Well, we are no longer second in space. And the critics of the Johnson Administration are now not satisfied to be first in space unless it can be done cheap. As a result of the space program we are not only going to be first on the moon and first in space. We are going to be first in a thousand fields of science, education, and industry. "This country does not have to choose between a space program that will keep it in first place and a poverty program that will keep it first . . . in national exertion for the disadvantaged. It can be and ought to be first in both." (Wash. Post, 12/2/66, A16)
First program to provide pilots with current satellite photos adapted for their use in flight planning began at Kennedy International Airport under ESSA direction. Photos transmitted by ESSA II and III and NIMBUS II were composited by computer into a single picture showing cloud patterns over eastern North America and the North Atlantic and analyzed by meteorologists. (ESSA Release)
USAF awarded contracts totaling over $6 million to Lockheed-Georgia co. and North American Aviation, Inc., to advance Vtol aircraft development. NAA received $5,671,000 to develop and demonstrate a Vtol integrated flight system; Lockheed received $975,000 to modify XV-4A "Hummingbird" to new system with direct lift and diverted thrust engines. (AFSC Release 288.66)
AEC Chairman Dr. Glenn T. Seaborg believed man could modify weather in this century through a global center operating a vast satellite system, AP reported. With international cooperation, he said, a worldwide forecasting system could become operational in 20 yrs.; later it might be possible to actually control the weather. (AP, NYT, 12/2/66)
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