Feb 21 1972
From The Space Library
Classified advertising for aerospace engineers had shown "consistent week-to-week increase" during January and February over same 1971 period in Southern California, Aviation Week & Space Technology reported. Trend indicated upturn in "Nation's largest aerospace manufacturing complex." (Av Wk, 2/21/72, 11)
Apollo 15 Astronaut Alfred M. Worden-who had orbited moon alone in command module while Astronauts David R. Scott and James B. Irwin explored lunar surface during July 26-Aug. 7, 1971, mission- read number of his space poems before meeting of Poetry Society of Texas. (W News, 2/18/72; Worden)
Aviation Week & Space Technology editorial described "tremendous new thrust of avionics into electronic countermeasures" (devices and systems for countering enemy electronic defenses) as "most dynamic element of modern warfare." ECM had "expanded its sphere from ground operations to the sea, air and even the space environment" of satellites and ICBMs. There was "half-billion-dollar market for hardware with over another billion dollars expended on operational use of ECM equipment." There was "ample evidence . . . that the Soviet Union has also embarked on a major ECM effort." There were still elements of "legitimate military secrecy" in ECM design and operation "but most of its functions are now well known to both sides." Electronic operations had expanded to "full range of a finite definable spectrum that both sides can scan fully and detect what is being done." (Hotz, Av Wk, 2/21/72, 9)
Twenty-First Annual Report of the Activities of the Joint Committee on Defense Production, Congress of the United States was transmitted to Congress. Report said U.S. might soon be entirely dependent upon U.S.S.R. and Japan for titanium used in jet aircraft construction. Last titanium plant in U.S.-Reactive Metals, Inc., in Niles, Ohio-had closed Dec. 13. It was third plant to go out of business in 1971 because of lack of titanium market, oversupply of titanium sponge, increased foreign competition, and critical financial losses. U.S. Bureau of Mines later reported that two U.S. titanium plants reopened during February 1972. (Text; Bureau of Mines pio)
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