Jan 19 1973
From The Space Library
Space News for this day. (1MB PDF)
Director Andrey Severny of the Crimea Astrophysical Observatory said that the Soviet lunar vehicle Lunokhod 2 (deposited on the moon by Luna 21, launched Jan. 8) carried an astrophotometer, or electron telescope without lenses, to register, the glow in wide areas of the sky in visible and ultraviolet spectral bands. (SF, 4/73, 121)
A study by the Aerospace Medical Research Laboratory at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, Ohio, had confirmed that fighter pilots under high g forces would perform better if cockpit seats were tilted backward, the Air Force Systems Command announced. The tilted seat would relieve some discomfort caused by g force while also providing maximum visibility. (AFSC Release 141.72)
A Science editorial commented on the resignation of President Nixon's Science Adviser, Dr. Edward A. David, Jr. [see Jan. 3] : The resignation and "likelihood that the office of the President's science adviser will be abolished come as a disappointing shock, David is a scientist engineer of very broad competence who maintained intellectual integrity in the emotional heat of politics." Abolition of office was "one of many consequences of President Nixon's determination to reorganize the Executive Office of the President." It was probable that the President's Science Advisory Committee and the Office of Science and Technology "would vanish" in reorganization. Criticism of Presidential Science Advisers had been "that they often became so involved in the day-to-day fighting of political brush fires that they lost sight of the forest." The scientific establishment had fought against creation of a Dept. of Science. "It has been argued that science and technology permeate the activities of virtually all executive agencies and that centralization would not be wise. The argument had been driven home too well. In consequence, there is now danger that science, while being everywhere, will be nowhere.” (Abelson, Science, 1/19/73, 9)
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