Sep 12 1968
From The Space Library
Institute for Strategic Studies in London issued report, "The Military Balance," which said U.S.S.R. had rushed construction of land-based ICBMs and now had almost as many as U.S. By end of 1968 Soviet total was expected to reach U.S. total of 1,054. (Shuster, NYT, 9/13/68, 9)
Slide-wire escape way, 1,200-ft-long, from 215-ft level to ground at KSC Complex 34 was declared man-rated following tests by five dummies and five men. Slide wire was designed as last means of escape from top of Saturn IB gantry for astronauts and close-out crews if emergency should shut off other routes. (Spaceport News, 9/12/68, 1)
NASA Associate Administrator for Manned Space Flight, Dr. George E. Mueller, told World Affairs Council in Pittsburgh, Pa.: "The U.S. space program was undertaken in 1958, and accelerated by three Presidents and six Congresses who considered it basic to our national strength and essential to our continued leadership of the Free World. It is . . . significant to note that this has been a bipartisan effort, with Republican as well as Democratic support. . . . Space expenditures contribute significantly to the national power of the United States in a world where military and economic security increasingly rest upon technology." U.S. space program "has been deliberately oriented toward cooperation with other countries. It is providing opportunities for foreign scientists to contribute and develop their talents and, at the same time, gives other nations a chance to share not only in the published results of space research, but in the accomplishment of these achievements as well. . . ." (Text)
Senate adopted S.R. 391, changing assignments of minority Senators to standing committees. Measure excused Senators Edward W. Brooke (R-Mass.) and Charles H. Percy (R-Ill.) from Senate Committee on Aeronautical and Space Sciences and assigned Senators Mark O. Hat- field (R-Ore.) and Charles E. Goodell (R-N.Y.) to Committee. (NASA LAR VII/90)
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