Aug 7 1975
From The Space Library
Marshall Space Flight Center announced selection of United Technologies Corp. for negotiation of a fixed-price contract of $1.775 million for solid-propellant booster separation motors (BSM) for use on the first 6 development flights in the Space Shuttle program, beginning in 1979. The BSMs would separate the two reusable Solid Rocket Boosters (SRB)-each SRB requiring eight BSMs, four forward and four aft-approximately 110 sec after launch. (MSFC Release 75-175)
European Space Agency announced a postponement in the launch of COS-B, scheduled for a 6 Aug. 6:56 pm PDT launch from Western Test Range, because of hydraulic-valve failure in a telemetry aircraft needed to monitor third-stage ignition of the launch vehicle. The launch had been rescheduled to 8 Aug. at 6:48 pin PDT. COS-B would be ESA's first satellite launch since the new agency's establishment on 30 May. (ESA Release, 7 Aug 75)
Scientists were calling for names for the thousands of mountains, craters, and chasms being found on planets faster than they could be named, the Christian Science Monitor reported. The two Viking spacecraft scheduled to reach Mars in 1976 and the two Soviet Venera spacecraft scheduled to approach Venus in October would no doubt uncover a host of new unnamed features. Names for known features on Venus, Mars, and the moon would be officially chosen at the August 1976 meeting of the International Astronomical Union (IAU), world clearinghouse for solar-system nomenclature. (Jones, CSM, 7 Aug 75, 2)
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