Sep 12 1964
From The Space Library
At closing plenary session of 15th IAF Congress in Warsaw, Dr. William H. Pickering, Director of Cal Tech's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, was named new IAF president. At the IAF banquet, Dr. Leonid I. Sedov (U.S.S.R.) said: "When we tell people we can land on the Moon by 1971, they say to us 'why so long, what is holding you up ?' " Also at the banquet, Dr. Wallace O. Fenn, thirty-five years prominent in biological sciences and Dept. of Physiology of Univ. of Rochester Medical School, and Secretary General of International Union of Physiological Sciences since 1959, was awarded the IAA's Guggenheim International Astronautics Award for 1964. (Wash. Post, 9/13/64; M&R, 9/21/64, 16; IAA Annual Rpt. 1963-64)
Japanese Ministry of Posts and Telecommunications conducted its first TV test with SYNCOM III communications satellite from ground station at Kashima, receiving return picture with satisfactory resolution. Purpose of test was to investigate parameters of the station. Transmission tests to Pt. Mugu, Calif., via the comsat were planned for early October. (Av. Wk, 9/21/64,30)
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