Aug 22 1973
From The Space Library
The U.S.S.R. launched Cosmos 580 from Plesetsk into orbit with a 490-km (304.5-mi) apogee, 273-km (169.6-mi) perigee, 92.1-min period, and 70.9° inclination. The satellite reentered April 1, 1974. (GSFC SSR, 8/31/73; 6/30/74; SBD, 9/6/73, 10)
Apollo 13 Astronaut Fred W. Haise, Jr., was critically burned when a BT-13 aircraft he was landing incurred engine failure near Galveston, Tex. Doctors reported later that Haise, who had walked away from the accident, had suffered second degree burns over 50% of his body and his condition was "critical but stable." (W Star-News, 8/23/73, A3)
The Institute for Advanced Computations at Ames Research Center held a press seminar on the ILLIAC IV computer. ILLIAC IV, developed and funded by the Advanced Research Projects Agency (ARPA) under a contract with Burroughs Corp., had been installed at ARC under a 1970 joint NASA-ARPA agreement and the Institute for Advanced Computations had been established to operate the system. ILLIAC IV was being integrated into a larger remote-access computer system being developed at ARC as a process and data-storage resource on the nationwide ARPA computing network, accessible to universities and Government agencies. ILLIAC IV would make applications in global climate dynamics, distant seismic-event detection, multisensor processing, fluid dynamics, and simulation and optimization problems in logistics and economics. (ARC Releases 73-88, 73-89; ARC PAO)
NASA launched an Aerobee 200A sounding rocket from White Sands Missile Range carrying a Goddard Space Flight Center astrophysics experiment to a 213.2-km (132.5-mi) altitude. The flight was nominal until 250 sec into the flight, when high-voltage problems developed. Final results would be determined after recovery of the payload. (NASA proj off)
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