Jun 5 1968
From The Space Library
USAF launched unidentified satellite from Vandenberg AFB by Titan III-B booster. Satellite entered orbit with 262-mi (421.6-km) apogee, 85-mi (126.8-km) perigee, 89.9-min period, and 110.5° inclination and reentered June 17. (Pres Rpt 68; SBD, 6/25/68, 272)
Rep. Emilio Q. Daddario (D-Conn.) inserted in Congressional Record address he had planned to deliver to House, deploring 1969 budgetary cuts in research field, particularly 20% reduction in National Science Foundation funds. Tendency in times of stress to "jump on research as the vulnerable part of the Federal budget" came from thoughtlessness, but slashing research funds was particularly serious "in view of the administrative cutbacks in basic research funds being made by the so-called mission-oriented agencies." America's "tortuous new physical, social and security problems" could not be resolved without "new tools, new methods, new approaches" and only way to develop them was by research. (CR, 6/5/68, H4572)
President Johnson, in accordance with Senate Concurrent Resolution 67 approved May 29, bade Secretary of Commerce C. R. Smith to continue coordination of national efforts in World Weather Watch program by providing forum for consultation among interested Federal agencies and departments, requiring submission of plans for following fiscal year to Congress annually on March 1, and developing arrangements to further international participation and cooperation in weather program. (PD, 7/8/68, 1057-8)
NASA announced appointment of R. Emerson Harris, Supervisor of System Safety, Boeing Co., as Assistant Director of Safety (System), reporting to Bob P. Helgeson, Director of Safety. Harris also would. serve as Deputy Executive Secretary to the Aerospace Safety Advisory Panel. (NASA Ann)
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