Aug 21 1974
From The Space Library
A House-Senate Conference Committee favorably reported a com-promise version of H.R. 15572, the FY 1975 Dept. of Housing and Urban Development-Space-Science-Veterans appropriations bill that included a $3.207-billion NASA appropriation. NASA funds were $40.394 million below the budget request and $60.194 million less than the FY 1975 authorization. An additional $4.435 million for energy research and development was appropriated separately. The compromise appropriation was close to the one passed by the Senate 16 Aug. and $3.685 million above the $3.203 billion approved by the House 26 June. (NASA Off Budget Ops, Chron History; CR, 21 Aug 74, 118787-90; H Rpt 93-1310)
The U.S.S.R. cosmonaut corps was being built up at same time the U.S. astronaut force was dwindling, a Miami Herald article said. The Herald quoted Astronaut Thomas P. Stafford, who had visited the U.S.S.R. during training for the 1975 Apollo Soyuz Test Project mission, as saying : "Star City (where most of the cosmonauts live and train) looks like a boom town. There's no doubt the Soviets have a vigorous ongoing manned space effort planned for the next five or six years." He said that the number of buildings in Star City had tripled in the previous two years, with more under construction. The total of 75 to 80 cosmonauts was a sharp increase over the estimated 55 of five years ago. In contrast the U.S. astronaut corps had fallen to 34 from a peak of 60 during the Apollo program, with only three training for a flight. Stafford said he did not believe the U.S.S.R. had any new spacecraft under development but rather planned for the continued use of the Soyuz as a workhorse. (M Her, 21 Aug 74)
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