Jan 1 1968
From The Space Library
NASA announced it would conduct 29 major launches from ETR and WTR during 1968. Surveyor-G launch, last in Surveyor series, was scheduled for Jan. 7. Launch of OGO-E would include last scheduled flight of Atlas-Agena launch vehicle from ETR; future unmanned interplanetary probes and high-altitude earth-orbital launches would use hydrogen-fueled Centaur. Two unmanned tests of Apollo lunar module and first manned test of Apollo spacecraft would use new Saturn IB vehicle. Three Apollo tests employing Saturn V would be launched from new spaceport complex at KSC. In addition to OGO and Surveyor, 11 scientific satellites would be launched from ETR-four Intelsats, ATS-D, OAO, OSO, Biosatellite-D, HEOS (launched for ESRO), Pioneer-D and Skynet comsat (launched for U.K.). Another 10 scientific satellites would be launched from WTR--four TOS spacecraft (launched for ESSA), OGO-F, GEOS-B, Nimbus-B, IMP-G, Radio Astronomy Explorer-A, and International Satellite for Ionospheric Studies (joint American and Canadian program). About 250 sounding rockets and scientific probes of upper atmosphere would be launched from NASA Wallops Station. (NASA Release 67-315; KSC Release 451-67)
President Johnson announced stringent Government controls over private investments abroad and measures to reduce U.S. balance-of-payments deficit by $3 billion in 1968. At Johnson City, Tex., news conference, he said actions would reduce intolerable deficit that could "endanger the strength of the entire free world economy, and thereby threaten our unprecedented prosperity at home." (Harwood, W Post, 1/2/68, 1)
Membership of NASA Historical Advisory Committee was designated for 1968-1969: Dr. Melvin Kranzberg, Case Western Reserve Univ., as Chairman; Dr. Eugene M. Emme, NASA Historian, as Executive Secretary; Dr. Raymond L. Bisplinghoff, MIT; Dr. James L. Cate, Univ. of Chicago; Dr. Earl H. DeLong, American Univ.; Dr. A. Hunter Dupree, Univ. of California at Berkeley; Dr. Joe B. Frantz, Univ. of Texas; Dr. Louis Morton, Dartmouth College; and Robert L. Perry, RAND Corp. (NASA NMI 1156.3A; NASA Special Release, 1/5/68)
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