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ASTRONAUTICS AND AERONAUTICS, 1967 September 29 $215.3 million for continued research and development effort on Nike- X. The Communist Chinese-oriented ABM system would consist of two types of radar and two interceptor missiles. (DOD Release 992-67) September 30: NASA Aerobee 150 sounding rocket, launched from NASA Wal- lops Station to 134-mi (216-km) altitude, in AFCRL experiment to meat- ure incident solar radiation in upper atmosphere from 1,206 to 284 A with monochromator while similar instrument was in operation in Os0 ZZZ satellite. Monochromator operated successfully; data were somewhat degraded by partial instrument failure. (NASA Rpt SRL) ComSatCorp Report to Shareholders for third quarter of 1967 indicated operating revenues were at record high of $5,2%,219. For second quarter in a row, operations showed over $0.5-million loss, but income from interest more than offset loss, to proFide net income of over $0.8 million. (Text ) During September: Suggestions for restoring public confidence in and ac- ceptance of the US. space program were advanced by William Leavitt in Air Force and Space Digest: “We can husband our resources by looking carefully at the question of whether we need two expensive and com- petitive manned orbital laboratories, one run by the National Aero- nautics and Space Administration and one run for the Defense Depart- ment by the Air Force. . . . “We can increase the funding and sharpen the planning of the unmanned working satellites. . . . We can begin to look seriously at the potential of aerospace systems analysis and engineering in the solution of nonspace and nonmilitary public problems, with an emphasis on building into these techniques . . . social, economic and political factors. . . . And we can begin to put to work in our schools, suburban and urban, many of the space-age training techniques that have been a beneficial by-product of the technological age we live in.” (AF/SD, 9/67,158-159,162,165) * M/G Alvin R. Luedecke ( USAF, Ret.) , Deputy Director of JPL, resigned He had come to JPL on Aug. 1, 1964, after five years as general man- ager of the Atomic Energy Commission and 25 years as an Air Force officer. ( JPL Lab-Oratory, Sept. 67) * NAA announced that Igor I. Sikorsky, popularly known as the father of the helicopter, had been selected to receive the 1%7 Wright Brothers Me- morial Trophy. Presentation would be made at the Dec. 14, 1967, annual memorial dinner in Washington, D.C. (NAA Release) NSF’S Office of Economic and Manpower Studies published report show- ing independent nonprofit institutions employed more than three times as many scientists and engineers in January 1965 as they did in January 1954. Scientific Activities of Nonprofit Institutions, 1964 said expendi- tures for R&D performance in these institutions were a little more than 51/, times as much as in 1953, increasing the nonprofit sector’s share of the Nation’s total R&D outlay from two percent in 1953 to three percent in 1964. (Text) 0 More than two thirds of 1%’~ public intercity travel had been by air, SpacelAeronautics reported. While long-haul air traffic demand would be shifted to aircraft like the SST, the airlines would need to come up with short-haul systems of equal caliber. Past studies, sponsored by FAA, had revealed that V/STOLS, complex and costly to operate as they are, would capture a substantial share of the short-haul market with 285
During September ASTRONAUTICS AND AERONAUTICS, 1967 their time savings and convenience and would, in fact, even increase the market by inducing more travel. (S/A, 9/67, 102-15) * General aviation fatal accidents for the first time fell below 3 per 100 million hours, the CAB estimating 2.5 for 1966. (#National Pilots Assn News, 9/67) The overall national security significance of space, in both tactical and strategic terms, were discussed by Dr. Harold Brown, Secretary of the Air Force, in General Electric Forum. “The Department of Defense does not view space as a mission, but rather as a place,” he said, ex- plaining broad Air Force responsibilities and goals in space. He cited representative features of the military unmanned space programs: (1) ballistic missile warning; (2) antisatellite defense; and (3) nuclear detonation detection. (Brown, General Electric Forum, Autumn 1967) U.S.S.R. and Great Britain planned to sign a joint technological agreement shortly as result of British government and industry team visit to Moscow during September, reported Aviation Week. Agreement would cover automatic landing, aircraft engine technology and reliability, engine noise, and sonic boom research, Minister of State John Stone- house, team leader, stated. Britain had substantial lead over U.S.S.R. in these fields, but Stonehouse contended sharing of information would lead to new export markets for British hardware in Soviet and Soviet- bloc countries. (Av Wk, 10/2/67,16) * Earth-orbiting satellites, according to Soviet cosmonaut Pave1 Popovich’s report in Aviation and Cosmonuutics, would render practical help to agriculture, assessing crop and forest resources and discovering areas of vegetation affected by disease, fires, locusts, and underground springs. His report specified regularly photographing areas under cultivation from sowing to harvesting and processing data in computers to obtain yield forecasts. (S/F, 9/67,310) Soviet radio astronomer Professor Vsevolod Troitski, in statement to Tass, said new information had provided convincing proof that moon’s surface was su5ciently strong to support spacecraft landings. He stated that substance composing top layer of moon’s surface con- sisted of loosely connected particles averaging 0.01 in and that contacts between particles were very weak. On an average, porous substance covered moon to a depth of about 13 ft, according to Troitski. (S/F! 9/67, 305) 286
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