Dec 18 1972
From The Space Library
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Click here to listen to Apollo 17 Mission Audio T+283.30 through T+286.31 Dec 18 1972
Click here to listen to Apollo 17 Mission Audio T+286.31 through T+289.36 Dec 18-19 1972
NASA announced award of $16 794 556 contract extension to North American Rockwell Corp. for testing, checkout, and launch operations in Skylab program. Cost-plus- fixed-fee supplement agreement with Kennedy Space Center covered third year of work under Nov. 29, 1970, contract. (NASA Release 72-20)
Retiring California Congressman H. Allen Smith said in joint letter to Dr. William H. Pickering, Jet Propulsion Laboratory Director, and Dr. Harold Brown, California Institute of Technology President, that he would request legislation to repeal law passed by Congress Oct. 3 that changed name of JPL to H. Allen Smith Jet Propulsion Laboratory. "I have never sought personal recognition. I think it could cause some confusion and possibly some misunderstanding" to rename JPL. (Pasadena Star-News, 12/18/72)
American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics would sponsor U.S. aerospace industry trade exhibit in Moscow in early spring 1973, Aviation Week & Space Technology reported. Exhibit would center on air traffic control equipment but probably would include other aviation and avionics gear. U.S.S.R was expected to purchase $10 million to $20 million worth of equipment but total orders At exceed $1 billion. (Av Wk, 12/18/72, 30)
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