Aug 14 1972
From The Space Library
President Nixon signed H.R. 15093, FY 1973 Dept. of Housing and Urban Development-space-science-veterans appropriations bill that included $3.408-billion NASA appropriation. Bill became Public Law 92-383. (PD, 8/21/72, 1246; PL 92-383)
Soviet scientists who had examined lunar samples brought to earth by Luna 16 and Apollo 11 had reported findings on lunar iron, Tass announced. Lunar iron was almost completely void of impurities and had not been affected by corrosion, in spite of its long presence on earth. Scientists maintained "that lunar vacuum and high temperature during the supposed eruptions of volcanoes themselves served as reducers of pure iron out of compounds." (FBIS-Sov, 8/15/72, L2)
Space researchers should look for insect life on Jupiter and for seeds and pollen on Saturn, Russian-born cosmologist Dr. Immanuel Velikovsky said during lecture sponsored by Ames Research Center's Biotechnology and Planetary Biology Divs. at ARC. He hypothesized that Venus and Mars had been in different orbits and had passed close enough to earth in centuries before Christ to cause cataclysms described in Old Testament. Dr. Velikovsky also suggested that several magnetic shells within solar system could return echoes and urged that space-craft be sent to investigate them. (ARC Astrogram, 8/3/72, 1; Mead, San Jose, Calif, Mercury, 8/15/72)
International Biophysics Conference ended in Moscow. During conference, attended by scientists from more than 40 countries, Moscow Univ. biophysicist Audrey Rubin reported spectrometry detection of simplest organic compounds in stellar dust. Discovery indicated possible existence of carbon-based organic life on other planets. (Tass, FBIS-Sov, 8/15/72, Ll )
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