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Newspaper
Independent
Location
Long Beach, California, United States of America
Date
Dec 03, 1966
Page
4
CAPE KENNEDY UPI The plan to launch Americas first manned Apollo spaceship this winter faces a new two week delay. NASA disclosed another problem in a string of troubles delaying the Apollo 1 mission and no launch date has been set, with earliest timing now aimed for mid February.
NASA announced on Oct 28 that the Pacific Communications Satellite tests would slip into the first three months of 1967. The delay aims to ensure the first manned Apollo moon effort proceeds on schedule, with the satellite providing commercial communications and linking North America, Hawaii, Japan, and Australia via ground stations.
The Atomic Energy Commission planned an underground nuclear detonation in a Mississippi salt dome to test undetected blast detection. A 350 ton TNT equivalent device was to be set off 2,700 feet underground in the Tatum Salt cavity carved by a 1964 test.
Santa Claus will appear downtown Lamar Missouri today despite a missing suit and red longies threat. Meanwhile Project Sterling moved up its test blast to Monday, with 115 residents evacuated and no radioactive leak reported. the detonation aimed to prove underground decoupling to mask true yield.
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