Astronautics and Aeronautics, 1967 - NASA's History Office

February 11 ASTRONAUTICS AND AERONAUTICS, 1967
February 8-28: A southward-looking oblique of the backside of the moon taken by Lunar
Orbiter Ill on February 19, from an altitude of 900 mi. The large crater toward the center
is Tsiolkovsky, 150 mi in diameter. On the right, a much enlarged view of part of the rim
and floor of the Tsiolkovsky crater taken by Lunar Orbiter Ill‘s high-resolution camera.
man in planetary flyby and orbiter missions to Mars and Venus.”
Committee endorsed NASA’s proposal to use spent 2nd stage of Uprated
Saturn I booster as orbital workshop for manned missions up to
56 days but recommended “careful study of the suitability, cost, and
availability of Titan III/MoL system for biomedical studies of man
for periods up to 60 days.”
Astronomy from earth satellite was “focus of . . . [committee’s]
recommendations for major pure science component of . . . [Nation’s]