Sep 13 1964

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U.S.S.R. launched COSMOS XLV into orbit, carrying scientific equipment to continue the space research program begun in March 1962. Initial parameters reported for the satellite's orbits: apogee, 327 km. (203.067 mi.); perigee, 206 km. (127.926 mi.); period, 89.69 min.; inclination, 64°54'. (AP, NYT, 9/14/64; FonF, XXIV, 313)

Rep. Olin E. Teague (D.-Tex.) was quoted in World Book Encyclopedia Science Service article as saying NASA's Apollo three-man spacecraft could be modified for military missions to: orbit earth for two to-three months with more than 21/2 tons of weapons or reconnaissance equipment by 1967; move from equatorial orbit to polar orbit, surveying earth every 24 hrs.; survey a single strategic portion of the globe from a stationary 24-kr. orbit; carry six 500-lb. rocket packages, adaptable to containing nuclear weapons. "If we do not succeed in developing . . . [such] military potential for Apollo, it will be because of lack of funding and direction, and not because of technical problems," he said. ". . our ability to defend ourselves in the future and thus our whole future is tied up in space." (SciServ, Houston Chron., 9/13/64)


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