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ASTRONAUTICS AND AERONAUTICS, 1967 July 22
Sciences Committee, told the press. He said information provided him
showed “that amount is $15 mill at North American’s
estimated potential incentive earn been if the accident
had not occurred.)y Senator Anderson said he believed the settlement was
realistic and fair: “A stricter penalty would have served no purpose and
could have adverse effects on the relationship between [NASA and NAA] .”
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e Twelve science experts met in Washington, D.C., to discuss implementing
the April 13 promise made by 20 Latin American Presidents at Punta del
Este, Uruguay, to “harness science and technology for the service of
our [M million] peoples.” MIT Chancellor Dr. James R. Killian, US.
representative, told the New York Times that “it would be of enormous
value and importance if we were able to devise a quick transfer of what
is already available, both within the other Latin countries and between
the United States and the others.” Strengthening of existing “centers of
excellence” in science and engineering, and the creation of multinational
centers that would overcome the problems of national boundaries could
rapidly increase the diffusion of skills among Latin American industries
and society, he said. (Clark, NYT, 7/23/67, 52)
e John Cobb Cooper, former president of International Institute of Space
Law and founder of McGill Univ.’s Institute of International Air Law,
died in Princeton, N.J. Cooper devised a legal code for outer space in
1961 when he was legal adviser to the International Air Transport Assn.
Code included recommendations that: (1) the lower boundary of outer
space be fixed at the point above the earth’s surface where it is possible
to launch a satellite into orbit at least once around the earth; (2) outer
space have the same status as the high seas, and that no one be permitted
to assert sovereignty over outer space or any celestial body in it; (3)
satellites and other spacecraft have the nationality of the country that
launched them unless otherwise agreed; and (4) a nation have the right
to take action in outer space for its self-protection and self-defense.
(NYT, 7/24/67, 27‘)
Jdy 23: Dr. Roger W. Heyns, Chancellor of the Univ. of California at
Berkeley, was named chairman of NASA’s Ad Hoc Science Advisory Com-
mittee, replacing Dr. Norman F. Ramsey of Harvard Univ., who re-
signed to devote more time to his new duties as president of the Univer-
sities Research Assn. Established in March 1966, the Committee advised
NASA on the conduct of future space programs, including manned pro-
grams. (NASA Release 67-191)
e NASA had awarded 12 inventors a total of‘ $9,100 for the advancement of
space technology : ( 1) Warren E. Armstrong, Donald S. La France, Car-
roll Z. Morgan, Lloyd B. Ryland, and Hervey H. Voge of Shell Develop-
ment Gorp., $3,000 for their contribution relating to a catalyst for
monopropellant decomposition of hydrazine used in liquid propulsion
technology; (2) Erwin Baker of Hughes Aircraft Co., $1,400 for a con-
stant lift device used to simulate lunar landing conditions for spacecraft;
(3) Joseph A. Goodrich and Kenneth T. Ingham, NAA, $1,200 for a
turbine blade-locking device to retain rotor blades on rotor wheels
for turbines employed in the J-2 engine program; (4) Richard G. Tur-
ner, RCA, $1,000 for a thermocouple assembly used in thermo-vacuum
tests for TV systems in Ranger, Tiros, Lunar Orbiter, and other similar
programs; (5) Richard A. McKay, JPL, $1,000 for temperature control
system for circulating fluids used in mixing units for propellant develop-
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