Oct 14 1964
From The Space Library
Space News for this day. (2MB PDF)
U.S.S.R. announced routine launching of COSMOS XLVIII satellite into orbit, with the following parameters: 295-km. apogee (183-mi.), 203-km. perigee (126-mi.) , 89.4-min. period, and 65.070-inclination to the equator. (Tass, Krasnaya Zvezda, 10/15/64, 1, ATSS-T Trans.)
NASA Marshall Space Flight Center announced award of two contract modifications to Boeing Co., prime contractor for Saturn V first stage (S-IC) : $2,918,418 modification for design, development, and manufacture of components for S-IC stage umbilical connection and related hardware; and, $11,836,000 modification for structural static-load testing program on S-IC to assure structural integrity of the 7.5-million-lb.-thrust rocket stage. These modifications increased total value of the S-IC contract to $516,206,009. (Marshall Star, 10/ 14/64, 9)
NASA Goddard Space Flight Center announced two firms would negotiate to provide three Satellite Telemetry Automatic Reduction Systems (STARS) : Beckman Instruments, Inc, and Electro Mechanical Research, Inc. Negotiations with the two firms would lead to final selection of single contractor for $2.5-million award. (GSFC Release G-30-64)
Three Soviet cosmonauts spent the day undergoing medical checks and post-flight examinations, following their 24-hour orbital space flight. (Clymer, Balt. Sun, 10/15/64)
Soviet geophysicist Academician Yevgeny Fedorov said in Izvestia that VOSKHOD I space flight proved Soviet space program was more advanced than that of U.S., adding: "I am sure that in the future, both Soviet and American cosmonauts will meet on the moon." Pravda editorial writer Victor Mayevsky said on Moscow TV that the flight of VOSKHOD I was a "Pearl Harbor in space for America." (Tanner, NYT, 10/15/64, 8; UPI, Chic. T rib., 10/15/64)
Speculation that U.S.S.R. timed their three-man VOSKHOD I space flight "to take the edge off the Chinese atomic demonstration which is expected very soon" was offered by Max Lerner in New York Post. (Lerner, N.Y. Post, 10/14/64)
Discovery of a sixteenth meson particle in the atomic nucleus, named ' "epsilon " by scientists led by Dr. Bogdan C. Maglic at the European Center for Nuclear Research (CERN) , was announced. (NYT, 10/15/64)
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