Feb 10 1975
From The Space Library
More than 19 000 aerospace workers struck McDonnell Douglas Corp. facilities in Missouri, California, and Florida, saying that their demands for increased wages and benefits had not been met. In McDonnell's St. Louis plant, where the Defense Dept.'s F-4 Phantom jets and F-15 Eagle fighters were built, 12 000 employees walked off the job. The press quoted company officials as saying that the strike would slow, and perhaps stop, production. Only the few aircraft ready for final assembly and flight testing would be completed. About 7000 workers walked out of California facilities, including Vandenberg Air Force Base. At Kennedy Space Center, 200 McDonnell Douglas employees truck, causing postponement of the Telesat-C launch scheduled 6 March on a McDonnell-built Delta launch vehicle. (C Trib, 11 Feb 75; NASA PIO, interview, 14 Feb 75)
Formation of a Federal interagency group-the Federal Interagency Task Force on Inadvertent Modification of the Stratosphere (IMOS)-to investigate the relationship of freons (fluorochlorohydrocarbons) to ozone reduction in the stratosphere was announced by the Chairman of the Council on Environmental Quality, Dr. Russell W. Peterson, and the Chairman of the Federal Council for Science and Technology, Dr. H. Guyford Stever. The group included representatives from NASA; the Departments of Agriculture, Commerce, Defense, Justice, and Transportation; Dept. of Health, Education, and Welfare; Energy Research and Development Administration; Environmental Protection Agency; National Science Foundation; and Interdepartmental Committee for Atmospheric Sciences.
IMOS would prepare a report summarizing atmospheric, medical, and ecological information on the freon/ozone relationship. The report would also evaluate possible economic impacts and alternatives to industry, consider what Federal action could be taken, and propose a Federal program to resolve the issues. (Fed Council for Sci and Tech Release 1)
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