Nov 27 1964
From The Space Library
Dr. George E. Mueller, NASA Associate Administrator for Manned Space Flight, announced that about 100 of the 140 personnel in the Kennedy Space Center Launch Support Equipment Engineering Div. would move from Marshall Space Flight Center to KSC by Aug. 1965. (NASA Release 64-298; NYT, 11/28/64, 16)
The European Space Research Organization (ESRO) Council approved its program for 1965, which would include setting up tracking and telemeasuring stations in Belgium, the Falkland Islands, and Alaska. The program would also include 41 experiments during 28 rocket firings, four experiments with the polar ionospheric satellite Esro 1 to be fired in September, and six experiments with the Esro 2 satellite for the study of cosmic rays. Payment of $17.2 million was voted and contracts worth $34.6 million were authorized. (AP, NYT, 11/29/64, 20)
President Johnson named Dr. Charles Stark Draper, head of Dept of Aeronautics and Astronautics at Massachusetts Institute of Technology, as a recipient of the National Medal of Science. Dr. Draper, a leader in developing aeronautic and astronautic instruments and controls, was one of 11 scientists to be so honored. (NYT, 11/28/64, 16)
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