Jun 13 1964
From The Space Library
SAF launched Thor-Agena D booster combination with unidentified satellite payload into a polar orbit. (AP, Chic. T rib., 6/14/64; UPI, Wash. Post, 6/14/64)
Space editor James J. Haggerty, Jr., compared Saturn IB and Titan III-C launch vehicles; ". . . In any head-to-head clash between the two pro-grams, Saturn IB must be considered the favorite. Titan III-C's quick reaction capability may be handy some day, but not in the next few years, since there are no military manned spacecraft to do the reacting. Saturn IB starts out with a 25% payload advantage and it has consider-ably more "stretchability.' For instance, adding the same 120-inch solid motors in the Titan III-C design to the Saturn IB's lower stage would permit boosting 65,000 pounds into a 100-mile earth orbit. Other improvements being considered could give IB a 120,000-pound earth orbit capability. "Thus, Saturn IB poses a threat to continued development of the only heavy payload military launch vehicle. (A-N-AF J&R, 6/13/64, 15)
It was reported that former astronaut John Glenn had recovered sufficiently from his inner ear ailment to work in his yard and walk around the neighborhood. (Phil. Eve. Bull., 6/13/64)
Resolution of the policy committee of Cornell-Guggenheim Aviation Safety Center, headed by former FAA Administrator Elwood R. Quesada, was inserted in Congressional Record: "(1) That the Government agencies and the broad aviation industry recognize and avoid the danger and economic waste that could result, if the exacting technological task of developing a sound supersonic transport were permitted to become a race to be first or a psychology of haste, "(2) That the pressures of prestige and competition not be permitted to overcome the more worthy considerations of public safety and economic logic. "(3) That all design and economic factors be deliberately tested and evaluated to assure maximum effectiveness of the solutions selected to insure that the end product be first in point of excellence rather than first in point of time." (CR, 6/13/64, 13226)
Johnson Administration was expected to postpone until next year a decision as to whether the U.S. should establish antimissile defenses around the country in a $15 billion program, as advocated by Gen. Maxwell D. Taylor (USA) Such a defense system would work in conjunction with civil defense facilities. Question seemed to be whether proposed system's effectiveness would warrant the cost. (NYT , 6/14/64, 72)
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