Astronautics and Aeronautics, 1965 - NASA's History Office

ASTRONAUTICS AND AERONAUTICS, 1965 9
propulsion for orbiting, deorbiting, and landing retrothrust, would employ
eight strap-on, jettisonable liquid hydrogen fuel tanks. The vehicle
resulted from a NASA-funded study but was not presently being
developed. (Marshall Star, 1/13/65, 1-2; Seattle Post-Intelligence,
1/8/65)
January 9: At Vatican City, Pope Paul VI saw a movie made up of photos
taken by RANGER VII as it neared the moon. NASA Associate Administrator
Robert Seamans, Jr., in Europe on other business, and
NASA European representative, Gilbert W. Ousley, were received by the
Pope, showed him the movie, and answered his questions. (N.Y. Herald
Trib., 1/11/65; AP, Balt. Sun., 1/11/65)
Dr. Eric Ogden, Chief of the Environmental Biology Division at NASA
Ames Research Center, was recipient of a Research Committee Citation
presented by the American Heart Association in New York. His work
for the Heart Association had been primarily in planning and evaluating
heart research projects. (ARC Release 65-1)
Tass announced that the Soviet Union would launch new types of space
rockets into the Pacific Ocean from Jan. 11 until Mar. 1 to gather
experimental data, and had asked other governments using sea or air
routes in the Pacific to make arrangements for ships and aircraft
not to enter the impact area between noon and midnight during the
launching period. The carrier rockets would be fired to a point
within a radius of 74 mi. from a center with coordinates of 1.58'
north latitude and 164.17' west longitude. (Reuters, NYT, 1/10/65;
Tass, Izvestia, 1/12/65,4, ATSS-T Trans.)
Working on the assumption that a leveling off of defense expenditures in
the Federal budget would be accompanied by diversion of some defense
funds for other public needs, California was taking steps to find new
c~stnmers f ~ its r aemspare industries. 37 per cent of California's
manufacturing industry was concentrated in ordnance, aircraft, electrical,
and instrument production, all of which, according to Gov.
Edmund G. Brown, would be vulnerable to cutbacks and phaseouts
in the Government's space and defense programs. The state was prepared
to finance study contracts in four major problem areas: waste
management, data collection, care of the mentally and criminally ill,
and transportation systems. Aerojet-General Corp. had already signed
a six-month, $100,000 contract to develop long-range state plans to
manage all kinds of waste, including air and water pollution. (Davies,
NYT, 1/10/65, 12)
Univ. of Louisville would be the first engineering school in the US. to
have installed an electric system linking its computers with all labora-
tories and classrooms in its Speed Scientific School. Students work-
ing on experiments would signal measurements directly to a computer
for immediate calculation and correlation. Experiments could be
shown on closed circuit TV. Eventually the computers would be pro-
gramed to direct experiments by automatically changing temperatures,
mixtures, pressure rates, or liquid flows. (NYT, 1/10/65,44)
January 10: NASA signed a one-year $70,000 contract with Flight Safety
Foundation to report and evaluate research and development projects
and events related to rough air in the atmosphere. The study would
be conducted from FSF Offices in New York City, Phoenix, Ariz., and
Los Angeles. (NASA Release 65-10)