Mar 2 1967
From The Space Library
Two Aerobee 150 sounding rockets carrying instrumented payloads were successfully launched by NASA from WSMR. First rocket carried an ultraviolet stellar spectrometer and input telescope to 97.5-mi (156.8-km) altitude to measure spectral irradiance of five early stars in 1,100 to 4,000 A wavelength. Second, carrying detectors to observe sky in the infrared, reached 98.5-mi (158-km) altitude. Rockets and instrumentation performed satisfactorily. (NASA Rpt SRL)
President Johnson told White House press conference that Soviet Premier Aleksey Kosygin had responded to his Jan. 27 letter: "This reply confirmed the willingness of the Soviet Government to discuss means of limiting the arms race in offensive and defensive nuclear missiles. "This exchange of views is expected to lead to further discussions of this subject in Moscow and with our allies. It is my hope that a means can be found to achieve constructive results. . . ." Asked if he viewed Senate passage of the consular treaty, the space treaty, the East-West trade treaty, and a nonproliferation treaty as "one movement," the President responded: "I think they are all very desirable moves in the national interest of the United States. . . . we are exploring, with every means at our command, every possible way of relieving tensions in the world and promoting peace in the world." (PD, 3/6/67,353-4)
Informed sources said U.S.S.R. had resumed sending meteorological data to US. from an orbiting satellite following a four-month pause, AP reported. Sent over a special teletype "cold line" established in 1964 between Moscow and Washington, D.C., for exchange of weather information, data were apparently transmitted from Cosmos CXLIV, launched Feb. 28. National Environmental Satellite Center later confirmed that it was receiving data from Cosmos CXLIV. (AP, NYT, 3/5 /67,31; AP, B Sun, 3/9/67)
GSFC selected GE Missile/Space Div. to negotiate a $1.7-million contract to develop, integrate, and test attitude control system for Nimbus D meteorological spacecraft. (GSFC Release G-11-67)
MSFC would design and build in house a multiple docking adapter (MDA) for use in Apollo Applications (AA) payload cluster scheduled for launch in 1968-69 [see Jan. 26]. Preliminary designs called for a 10-ft-dia, 15-ft-long cylinder surrounded by five 36-in-dia tunnels with docking collars and sealing hatches for orbital docking. (MSFC Release 6742)
Purdue Univ. had approved memorials for alumni Virgil I. Grissom and Roger B. Chaffee, who died in Jan. 27 Apollo spacecraft fire. Memorials included naming two campus buildings for astronauts, providing full four-year scholarships for the two children of each man, and establishing astronauts' scholarship fund for worthy students. (AP, NYT, 3/3/67)
General Dynamics Corp. Convair Div. engineers said NASA had tentatively selected its double delta wing design for a hydrogen-fueled hypersonic aircraft of the future. Aircraft would weigh 500,000 lbs and cruise at six times the speed of sound. (AP, NYT, 3/2/67)
It was essential to have a system of international law to protect health of extraterrestrial life, Soviet scientist Gennadi Zhukov told Tass in an interview. The space law treaty signed Jan. 27 was only the beginning of space law as a science, Zhukov said; additional legal controls would be needed to ban potentially harmful experiments, prevent man's thoughtless use of planetary mineral resources, protect any existing forms of extraterrestrial life, and establish permanent orbital inspection stations around earth. (Reuters, NYT, 3/2/67,20)
US. should develop a 5,000-mph commercial aircraft and a 8,000-mph bomber, Dr. Antonio Ferri, Director of New York Univ.'s Guggenheim Aerospace Laboratories, told AIAA luncheon meeting in Washington, D.C. "Civilization has grown with the speed of moving around. The history of civilization shows that gradually you want to get in contact with people further away." Dr. Ferri noted that jet aircraft had made Europe accessible, and the next generation of aircraft would bring other parts of the world within equally easy reach. He concluded that the technology and the "tremendous opportunities" of hypersonic aircraft were near at hand, but that necessary decisions and funds were still lacking. (Clark, NYT, 3/3/67,16)
AEC-NASA Space Nuclear Propulsion Office awarded $64.5-million contract extension through September 1967 to Aerojet Corp. to continue technology research being performed for SNPO. (AEC Proj Off)
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