Feb 12 1974
From The Space Library
With the 8 Feb. splashdown of the Skylab 4 astronauts, 1816 employees at Kennedy Space Center saw their jobs come to an end, the Baltimore Sun reported. The Sun quoted a NASA spokesman as saying that by 30 June the contractor and Civil Service work force at KSC would be 9450. The latest group to be laid off included mostly contract employees for Boeing Co., General Electric Co., and International Business Machines, Inc. (AP, B Sun, 12 Feb 74, A9)
Tass commentator Georgy Sergeyev commented on the U.S.-U.S.S.R. Apollo Soyuz Test Project: The success of Skylab and the first flight of Yuri A. Gagarin, the space walk of Aleksey A. Leonov, and the exploration of the moon by American astronauts, were only "milestones along the road of exploration of outer space," ASTP would be another step. The joint Soviet-American mission had become possible, not only because of the efforts of scientists, but also because of the "conditions of a favorable political climate established in Soviet-American relations as a result of the fruitful . . . summit meetings." The main task was to see that "these changes become irreversible." ASTP would go a long way toward "making space exploration really internationalist." (Tass, FBIS-Sov, 14 Feb 74, B6)
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