Jul 23 1966
From The Space Library
U.S.S.R. objected to a US. proposal to allow military equipment to be used on the moon or other celestial bodies for peaceful purposes, Platon Morozov, deputy acting permanent U.S.S.R. U.N. representative, told the Legal Subcommittee of the U.N. Committee on the Peaceful Uses of Outer Space meeting in Geneva to draft a treaty governing outer space exploration. He said such a provision would create a loophole for violations; he was prepared, however, to accept with a few minor modifications other provisions of US. draft article. (Reuters, Wash. Post, 7/23/66)
Locating GATV VIII during Gemini X flight was called "a major feat of three-dimensional navigation" in a Hartford Times editorial, which said "use of Agena 8's fuel also brings closer the day when manned laboratories permanently parked in orbit around the earth will be in use for purposes both experimental and immediately useful." (Hartford Times, 7/23/66)
July 23-27: Three-axis stabilization for NASA's OGO III spacecraft was incapacitated after 46 days of flawless operation by failure of a magnetic amplifier which shorted out the attitude control system power inverter. Backup spin stabilization system was activated July 27, and reorientation affected only six experiments. Primary scientific objectives were expected to be achieved, and spacecraft's spin axis would be reoriented in late December to increase power input. (NASA Proj. Off.)
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