Apr 12 1968
From The Space Library
Space News for this day. (2MB PDF)
NASA would negotiate $900,000, one-year, cost-plus-fixed-fee contract with Chrysler Corp.'s Space Div. to study needs and configuration alternatives for an intermediate payload launch vehicle in post-1973 space operations. Payloads under consideration included long-duration manned operations in low earth orbit, unmanned satellites in synchronous orbit, logistic support for manned lunar exploration, and unmanned planetary and deep space probes. Contract would be managed by OMSF. (NASA Release 68-67; Sehlstedt, B Sun, 4/13/68)
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