Mar 11 1967
From The Space Library
NASA officials dedicated at Corpus Christi, Tex., a 30-ft-dia dish antenna which would be used to receive signals from Apollo spacecraft. Operational responsibility for Corpus Christi tracking station, previously used for Gemini support, had been transferred from DOD to NASA in 1966. (UPI, NYT, 3/13/67,60)
The Vatican had authorized the Roman Catholic apostolic delegate in U.K. to sign the International Treaty on Peaceful Uses of Outer Space, AP reported. Unanimously approved by the U.N. General Assembly Dec. 8, 1966, treaty was signed simultaneously by representatives of 62 nations Jan. 27 in Washington, D.C., London, and Moscow, and was kept open for additional signatures in those capitals. (AP, P Inq, 3/12/67)
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