Dec 13 1964
From The Space Library
RELAY I began its third year in orbit and could still send clear, high-resolution television and audio signals across oceans and continents. The communications satellite had circled the globe 5,685 times and accomplished 186 demonstrations and 2,139 experiments, with a transponder-on time of 334 hours. The RELAY I project was directed by NASA Goddard Space Flight Center. (NASA Release 64-213)
USAF launched Thor-Able-Star launch vehicle from WTR with unidentified satellite payload. It was later revealed that two satellites were placed in orbit (HHN-48)
Translations of reports in Russian journals indicated that space flights lasting longer than 24 hours produced changes in the human body, including bladder and kidney troubles, that could not be corrected. Future Soviet flights would be aimed at detecting the beginning of these dis-orders and attempting to prevent them. The translations indicated that the Russians planned to send up more doctors and physiologists and that the primary reason for the 16-mo. delay between flights by the U.S.S.R. was the seriousness of the disorders affecting astronauts after flights lasting for five days. Future crews Would be selected "as medial teams as opposed to individuals," said one Soviet journal. The men would also be picked on the basis of their medical compatibility-to see that one man's personal germs, bacteria, or virus did not infect other members of the team. (Burkett, Houston Chron., 12/13/64)
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