Nov 24 1967
From The Space Library
Space News for this day. (2MB PDF)
NASA Nike-Tomahawk sounding rocket was launched from Fort Churchill, Canada, in experiment from Univ. of California at Berkeley to study charged particles in the auroral zone, 1-300 kev electrons, and 1-100 kev protons. Peak altitude was unknown because of loss of telemetry and radar signal. Payload malfunction accounted for failure to obtain complete data. (NASA Rpt SRL)
Electronic machine was developed by ERC contractor Dr. Huseyin Yilmaz of Arthur D. Little, Inc. Machine visually displayed spoken word profiles on small oscilloscope, with objective of eventually allowing voice commands to maneuver spacecraft. Used to teach deaf and retarded people, machine helped deaf person to correct his speech by "seeing" his voice, and NASA scientists would use this project and similar studies to categorize and encode speech patterns. (ERC Release 67-39)
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