Jun 5 1963
From The Space Library
NASA awarded contract for designing and fabricating advanced four-man, six-month, life-support system to General Dynamics Corp.'s Astronautics Div. (GD/A). 18-month contract called for research, design, fabrication, testing, and delivery to NASA Langley Research Center of fully operating prototype life-support system for space flights. (NASA Release 63-126; Langley Release)
USAF conducted successful test-firing of "second generation" Minuteman ICBM from Cape Canaveral, its re-entry vehicle impacting target area near Ascension Island. (DOD Release 820-63)
NASA announced selection of Boeing Co. and Douglas Aircraft Co. for final negotiations leading to manned orbital research laboratory study contracts. NASA Langley Research Center would negotiate definitive three-month study contracts with the two companies. (NASA Release 63-120; Langley Release)
In Air Force Academy commencement address, President Kennedy said: "It is my judgment that this Government should immediately commence a new program in partnership with private industry to develop at the earliest practical date the prototype of a commercially successful supersonic transport superior to that being built in any other country of the world . . . Neither the economics nor the politics of international competition permits us to standstill in this area." (Wash. Post, 6/6/63)
President Kennedy witnessed successful firings of six Army missiles at White Sands Missile Range: Honest John, Little John, Sergeant, Hawk, Nike-Hercules, and Nike-Zeus. (M&R, 6/10/63, 12)
In commencement address at Mundelein College, Chicago, AEC Chairman Dr. Glenn T. Seaborg said "Today, science has become the dynamic factor in our society. There are a great many intelligent and dedicated men and women in the world using their highest talents and intelligence to try to solve complex problems about our universe .... "Answers to these questions will serve not only to satisfy our human curiosity, but, of course, will have enormous practical implications. Curiosity about our universe is part of our human inheritance, and the scientist is, after all, a person with a highly skilled and intelligently directed sense of curiosity . . . . " Discussing modern technology's solutions to some old problems, he said: "Perhaps a lesson to be gained from these accounts is the fact that there is a unity of knowledge and knowledge seeking. There is a continuum that extends from theories of the origin of the universe through the rise of life on earth to the evolution and history of man, and on to the completion of the cycle with such an abtruse field as high energy particle theory. There is no knowledge that is isolated from the total fabric . . . ." (Text, CR, 6/6/63, A3667-68)
USAF CH-3B helicopter landed at LeBourget Airport near Paris after 35-hr., 5-stop flight from Otis AFB, Mass. (UPI, NYT, 6/6/63,4)
June 5-6: India's President Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan toured Cape Canaveral and witnessed two successful test launchings: USAF Minuteman ICBM on June 5 and USN Polaris A-3 missile on June 6. (AP, NYT, 6/7/63,2; M&R, 6/17/63,12)
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