Aug 27 1973
From The Space Library
NASA's Manned Spacecraft Center was officially rededicated as Lyndon B. Johnson Space Center in ceremonies at JSC, attended by Dr. James C. Fletcher, NASA Administrator, Texas Gov. Dolph Briscoe; and Mrs. Lyndon B. Johnson. A bust of the late President Johnson by sculptress Jimilu Mason, donated by the Houston Chamber of Commerce and the Albert Thomas Space Hall of Fame, was unveiled. A Johnson Room opened in the JSC Visitor Center displayed the original U.S. copy of the Treaty for the Peaceful Uses of Outer Space, signed in 1967 during President Johnson's Administration. At the dedication Dr. Fletcher said that President Johnson had needed "great political courage" 1965-1967 to fight for funds for NASA pro-grams of the 1970s such as Skylab and Viking. "The decision to continue with a strong space program after Apollo may . . . prove to be the most important of all the decisive actions Lyndon Johnson undertook on behalf of space progress." Earlier in the day Astronaut Alan L. Bean, commander of the Skylab 3 crew orbiting the earth after July 28 launch to join the Orbital Workshop for 59 days, had radioed: "We think the work in which we are engaged right now would not have been possible except for [John-son's] strong support and leadership in the Senate and the Presidency." President Johnson himself had said-on a March 1, 1968, visit to MSC-referring to the National Aeronautics and Space Act of 1958: "The one legislative enactment that I suppose I am proudest of is the bill that I wrote and introduced that made possible NASA, that brought into existence this great facility and others in the program throughout the nation." President Nixon had signed the law making the name change Feb. 17. Mr. Johnson had died Jan. 22. (Transcript; JSC Roundup, 8/17/73; 8/31/73; McElheny, NYT, 8/28/73, 24)
NASA announced publication of NASA Patent Abstracts Bibliography (NASA SP-7039). Second in a semiannual series to implement the liberalized Federal patent policy, the bibliography was accompanied by an index that cross-referenced patent abstracts published in the first two issues. (NASA Release 73-168)
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