Jul 10 1963
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NASA Administrator James E. Webb issued statement to press "The record shows that Congress has consistently taken the necessary action to support the space program, and I am confident that this Congress will continue this record. Although the report of the House Committee on Science and Astronautics is a major milestone on the road to approval of the 1964 NASA Budget, it is still too early in the consideration of this budget by Congress to draw firm conclusions as to what the final result will be. The House subcommittees have given the NASA programs a most careful review, accumulating data from hearings which will total more than 4,000 pages of testimony. Their devotion and attention to details has been impressive but in my opinion the overall result of their actions is an inadequate level of support for a program that is urgently needed, has achieved a high level of success, and is now giving this nation the promise of early preeminence in all phases of space exploration and use. In the areas reduced, NASA will present a Strong case for restoration as the legislation proceeds to enactment. "After its many details were brought under close scrutiny and the possibility of postponement of many of these examined, the Committee has endorsed the program and the way it is being carried out but decided to defer approval until subsequent budgets in a number of important areas. My view is that the necessary resources should be authorized this year, rather than have important Segments postponed with the consequent introduction of uncertainty at many levels in the government-industry university team now engaged in this urgent national effort. "At the reduced level of funding recommended, we will certainly have to slow up or postpone a number of programs and direct a reduction in the scheduled level of effort in the plants of our contractors where 90% of the work of the Space program is done. Unless an adequate level of Support is restored, momentum already attained with great effort and difficulty will be lost and the stretch-out required will add to the final cost of the work required to carry out the program." (Statement)
"Town Meeting of the World"-international live telecast via TELSTAR II communications satellite-presented on CBS-TV. The one-hour forum featured former President Dwight D. Eisenhower from Denver; former British Prime Minister Sir Anthony Eden, Earl of Avon, from London; Dr. Heinrich von Brentano, majority leader of West German Bundestag, from Bonn; and Jean Monnet, France's "Father of the Common Market," from Brussels. Program was to have been first live transatlantic viewing, but French government refused permission to use PleumeurBodou round Station needed to relay telecast throughout Europe. (NYT, 7/11/63, 3)
Univ. of Chicago scientists led by Dr. Peter Meyer, physicist of Enrico Fermi Institute for Nuclear Studies, left Chicago for Churchill, Manitoba, where they would conduct experiments testing theory that electrons and positrons reaching earth are created in collisions of atomic nuclei in Space. Experiments would involve sending 185-lb. magnet, plus instrumentation and cameras, to 120,000-ft. altitude with 40-story-high balloons, to record and analyze particles in area affected by field near the earth's magnetic pole (where particles can pass with minimal interference. (Chic. Trib., 7/8/63)
National Airlines President L. B. Maytag, Jr., told National Aerospace Education Council in Miami Beach that mach 2 commercial airliner would be far more economical and utilitarian than mach 3, usable only in transoceanic flight because of altitude requirements. Mach 2 aircraft could make transcontinental U.S. flights faster than mach 3 aircraft, which would have to cruise at 12-mi. altitude in Order to prevent sonic boom damage. Mach 2 could be built of aluminum, but mach 3 airliner would have to be built Of titanium and steel, Maytag said. (UPI, Wash,. Post, 7/11/63)
Camera equipped with special synchronization System making it capable of taking 8 million pictures per sec. was reported in Washington Star. Synchronization system was devised by Pvt. 1/CR. Carey of Army Engineer Research and Development Laboratory, Ft. Belvoir, Va. (Henry, Wash. Eve. Star, 7/10/63) )
West German Cabinet approved West German participation in two European rocket and space project-development Of three-stage rocket by 7-nation ELDO and development of space probe by 11 nation ESRO. (NYT [West. Ed.], 7/11/63)
Supersonic Transport Advisory Group was dissolved by Federal Aviation Agency following completion Of task for which it was formed in Nov. 1961. (FAA Release 63-63)
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