Oct 29 1967
From The Space Library
U.S.S.R. would "shortly" launch a manned spacecraft which might land outside Soviet territory-possibly in India-Soviet Ambassador to India Nikolai M. Pagov told reporters in Madras, India, according to AP. Permission to recover spacecraft in India had been requested and granted in early September, he said. Official U.S. sources, noting that several other countries had been approached for such permission, speculated that an unmanned rehearsal for a manned circumlunar flight had been scheduled for late September and postponed because of technical problems. Oct. 27 launches of Cosmos CLXXXVI and Cosmos CLXXXVII-which were apparently Soyuz-type spacecraft-could be "practice shots" for the planned manned flight. (AP, W Post, 10/30/67, A3; Clark, NYT, 10/30/67,54)
JPL Director Dr. William H. Pickering announced appointment of Fred H. Felberg, Assistant Laboratory Director for Technical Divisions, to the new position of Assistant Laboratory Director for Plans and Programs. He would be succeeded by Jack N. James, Deputy Assistant Director for Flight Projects. In his new position Felberg would be responsible for planning JPL's total program, including . . . effective distribution of manpower and resources." (JPL Release 460)
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