Jan 28 1973
From The Space Library
Japan launched four-stage rocket from Uchinoura Space Center to test orbiting techniques. (AP, NYT, 1/29/73, 3)
The U.S. National Scientific Balloon Facility launched a second balloon from Oakey Field, Queensland, Australia, for NASA's Project Boomerang [see Jan. 24 and March 22]. (NASA Release 73-48)
Soviet cosmonaut Mrs. Valentina Nikolayeva-Tereshkova - on tour in Cacolla, India-told the press she was preparing for another space flight. "I am working for it and am keen on it because it is my work, but no date has yet been fixed for it." Mrs. Nikolayeva-Tereshkova, wife of Cosmonaut Andrian G. Nikolayev, had made her first space flight June 16-19, 1963, on Vostok 6. (AP, W Star & News, 1/29/73, A3)
Novelist Joseph McElroy described his personal impression of the Apollo 17 launch in a New York Times essay: "My main image was the Saturn rocket destroying itself stage by stage, separating behind the spacecraft, which was then alone, coasting a trajectory whose essence was to get away and not come back, escape the dialectical symmetries of up down, out back, growth and decay-and instead burst through into speeds and distances not just greater but other; yet also, yes, to come back changed, to save the earth, prove to Earthling ecologues it had been worth all that liquid oxygen and hydrogen in a few minutes of early burn.” (NYT, Bk Rev, 1/28/73, 27)
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