Jan 18 1971
From The Space Library
Widow of Astronaut Virgil I. Grissom, one of three astronauts killed in Jan. 27, 1967, Apollo spacecraft fire, filed $10- million suit in Brevard County Circuit Court against North American Rockwell Corp. and subsidiaries North American Aviation, Inc., Rockwell Standard Corp., and Rockwell Standard Co. Mrs. Betty Grissom charged negligence in fire which killed her husband and Astronauts Roger B. Chaffee and Edward H. White II. Suit asserted spacecraft did not have proper fire extinguisher system, had no emergency egress, and was "defective" because electrical wiring permitted electrical arc to flash in cabin. (AP, W Star, 1/19/71, B10)
January 18-21: Dr. George M. Low, Acting NASA Administrator, and Mstislav V. Keldysh, President of Soviet Academy of Sciences, met in Moscow with representatives of other agencies to exchange views for increased U.S: U.S.S.R. cooperation in exploration and use of outer space for peaceful purposes. At close of meetings, joint communique was released by Soviet Academy and U.S. Embassy in Moscow. Academy and NASA officials had found discussions "useful" and had agreed to exchange lunar surface samples. Procedures were established to produce recommendations for joint consideration of results of space research, improvement of existing weather data ex-changes, research with meteorological rockets, techniques for studying natural environment, expanded exchange of data on space biology and medicine, and work in other fields. Preliminary document was initialed on Jan. 21. (NASA Release 71-9)
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