May 14 1970
From The Space Library
NASA's X-24A lifting-body vehicle, piloted by NASA test pilot John A. Manke, completed 13th flight from FRC. Two of four rocket chambers failed to fire after air launch from B-52 aircraft at 12 800 m (42 000-ft) altitude and desired speed (mach 0.95) was not achieved. Some data were obtained at about mach 0.7 and below. (NASA Proj Off)
Dr. Thomas O. Paine, NASA Administrator, delivered commencement address at Univ. of New Brunswick in Fredericton, New Brunswick, Canada: ". . the Space Age, being only a decade old, has not (yet had time to develop a professional university curricula. Thus, we have not been able to hire graduates specifically trained in space and astronautical engineering. . . This parallels the experience we had when solid-state electronics replaced vacuum tubes, and we had to move ahead by retraining people. . . . It was also true at the start of the nuclear age, when we had to develop new nuclear power plants without the benefit of professionally trained graduates. The message for you here is that all of these programs were successful because the primary discipline that universities teach is intellectual discipline itself." (Text)
Arcas sounding rocket was launched by NASA from Pacific Missile Range carrying GSFC experiment to study ozone in atmosphere. Mission did not meet minimum scientific requirements. (SR list)
Chicago Daily News said student antiwar demonstrations at Univ. of Illinois in Urbana might have caused DOD to reevaluate decision to locate world's largest computer-Illiac IV-on University campus. Sources in Washington, D.C., had said non was reevaluating whether to locate computer center in Urbana. Computer, being funded by non at cost of more than $24 million, would be used two thirds time for military work, such as plotting operations of U.S. missile defense systems under enemy attack. During remaining time, computer would be available for academic work by university scientists. Computer had been target of student and faculty protests at Urbana since Nov. 15, 1969, when university newspaper revealed it would be built on campus. (C Daily News, 5/14/70, 5)
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