Jun 28 1965
From The Space Library
Pictures of Mars relayed to earth by MARINER IV would be released to the public within 36 to 48 hrs, after they were taken July 14, NASA announced. MARINER IV was expected to take more than 20 photographs in about 2-1 min, and radio them back to earth in digital form; while not as detailed as the Ranger photographs, they were expected to make a valuable contribution to space exploration, MARINER IV would pass within 5,600 mi. of the planet. The pictures would be taken at somewhat greater distances while Mars was in sunlight relative to the spacecraft. (NASA Release 65-210; UPI, NYT, 6/29/65)
NASA officially confirmed the six scientist-astronauts named in the Nation's press June 27. They were Owen K. Garriott; Edward G. Gibson; Duane E. Graveline; Lt, Cdr, Joseph P. Kerwin (USN) ; Frank Curtis Michel; and Harrison H. Schmitt. (NASA Release 65-212)
USAF and NASA were finishing plans for joint lifting-body tests, reported William Normyle in Aviation Week and Space Technology, He said a joint USAF-NASA Flight Test Group was being formed at Edwards AFB and would include NASA and USAF pilots who would flight-test three lifting-body configurations in a program to be monitored by NASA. Two configurations, the M-2 and the HL-10, were NASA designs built by Northrop Corp's Norair Div. Third configuration, USAF'S SV-5, was developed by Martin Co. (Normyle, Av. Wk, 6/28/65, 19)
In response to newsmen's questions, a spokesman for the State Dept, said the U.S. planned to continue operating its two satellite tracking stations in South Africa despite the warning by South African Prime Minister Hendrick Verwoerd that Negro Americans cannot be employed there. Of the two tracking stations, DOD operated one and NASA the other. The DOD station employed about 50 American technicians, almost all civilians, and about 25 South Africans. The NASA station had only one American, a liaison officer; other employees were South Africans-some of them non-white. (Halloran, Wash, Post, 6/29/65, A16)
EARLY BIRD I began commercial operations when President Johnson formally inaugurated telephone service via communications satellite in a 25-min, 6-nation conference call with European officials, including British Prime Minister Harold Wilson, West German Chancellor Ludwig Erhard, and Swiss President Tschudi. Participants reported satisfaction with results. (ComSatCorp Release; Robertson, NYT, 6/29/65, 12)
At a Special Awards Ceremony at NASA Manned Spacecraft Center, the Presidential Citation was presented to John H. Robinson of Resources Management Div, Robinson was one of the three individuals responsible for organizing a control center, preparing all Pert networks, and operating this control center, Operation was so effective that USAF was able to complete a modernization program far ahead of schedule with a monetary saving of several million dollars. (MSC Roundup, 7/9/65, 3)
President Johnson accepted the resignation of Eugene G. Fubini as Assistant Secretary of Defense ( Deputy Director of Research and Engineering), effective July 15. (UPI, Wash, Post, 6/29/65)
A strike by 86 members of the International Alliance of Theatrical and Stage Employees carried work stoppage at Kennedy Space Center into the fifth day. They had walked out in a wage dispute with a firm providing printing and reproduction services for NASA; about half the 5,300 construction workers at KSC had honored their picket lines, halting work on $178 million worth of projects. (Wash, Post, 6/29/65)
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