Jan 8 1971
From The Space Library
Three aerospace teams, including seven European firms interested in support roles, submitted proposals to MSFC on preliminary design of research and applications module (RAM) proposed for space shuttle and space station. Proposals were submitted by McDonnell Douglas Corp., General Dynamics Corp., and General Electric Co. Team headed by General Dynamics would include MATRA of France, ERNO of Germany, SAAB of Sweden, Hawker Siddeley of U.K., and Fiat of Italy. General Electric team would include Messerschmitt-Boelkow- Blohm of Germany and Thompson-csF of France. (MSFC Release 71-10)
HUD had evolved $4-million pilot project to put 1500 unemployed space industry technicians and former servicemen to work in model cities projects, Washington Post reported. Plan, developed by HUD Assistant Secretary Floyd Hyde, would recruit unemployed and give them fast orientation courses on urban problems on assumption that aerospace skills could be transferred to urban improvement. Hyde proposed to start project in March with up to 350 participants and estimated cost to Government of about $2000 per person placed in new job. (W Post, 1/8/71)
St. Louis Post-Dispatch editorial commented on Dec, 23, 1970, DOD announcement that Sprint ABM had successfully intercepted ICBM nose-cone over Pacific: Announcement "proved only two things: the military establishment recognizes that the war in Congress over full deployment of the ABM system is far from over; consequently the real target of the test firing was not a nose cone but Congressional critics whose arguments the Pentagon has yet to refute." Paper wondered "why the secondary Sprints are needed in the allegedly foolproof Safeguard system if the Spartan is as successful as the military claims it to be." More puzzling was "how the Pentagon can call the Sprint a success when the crew that fired it from a South Pacific atoll was told in advance exactly when the nose cone target would be fired." (St Louis P-D, 1/8/71)
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