Jan 6 1967

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Space News for this day. (2MB PDF)

Harold B. Finger, Director of Nuclear Systems and Space Power in NASA Hq. OART and Manager of AEC-NASA Space Nuclear Propulsion Office, temporarily assigned additional duty of heading group of NASA officials who would analyze needs for procedural revisions and functional alignments within NASA Hq. (NASA Release 67-2)

NASA's Surveyor I spacecraft, which softlanded on the moon June 2, 1966, was reactivated on the lunar surface for 12 hrs to transmit data on the motion of the moon. JPL said the new data would be used to help "refine the Moon's distance from the Earth, its position in orbit at a given time, and other elements of its velocity and motion." (SBD, 1/11/67, 42)

USAF reported that an SR-71 strategic reconnaissance aircraft was missing and presumed down after test flight from Edwards AFB. (UPI, W Post, 1/7/67,3)

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