Jul 19 1971
From The Space Library
Apollo 15 astronauts would wear pressure suits instead of flight coveralls as originally planned-during LM jettison, NASA announced. Requirements for crew to wear suits had been reevaluated after deaths of three cosmonauts during reentry from June 6-30 Soyuz 11 mission. (NASA Release 71-134)
U.S.S.R. sent telegram to American Science and Engineering, Inc., designer of Apollo 15 x-ray detector, accepting invitation to cooperate with U.S. in studying x-ray sources during Apollo 15 mission. Soviet scientists would train 2591-mm (102-in) telescope on same region of sky that Apollo 15 crew would explore during return to earth and would compare notes on how strongest x-ray source in sky appeared through telescope and through x-ray detector. (McElheny, W Post, 7/21/71, A10)
Clare F. Farley, Executive Officer in Office of NASA Administrator since 1968, became Assistant Administrator for Technology Utilization. Farley was succeeded as Executive Officer by Henry E. Clements, formerly of USAF Hq. Directorate of Space Research and Development. (NASA Ann, 7/12/71)
Sen. B. Everett Jordan (D-N.C.) introduced, for himself and cosponsors, S. 2302 "to establish an Office of Technology Assessment for the Congress as an aid in the identification and consideration of existing and probable impacts of technological application; to amend the National Science Foundation Act of 1950; and for other purposes." (CR, 7/19/71, S11346)
President Nixon submitted to Senate nomination of Stanford Univ. chemist John D. Baldeschwieler to be Deputy Director of OST. He would succeed Dr. Hubert Heffner, who had resigned to return to duties at Stanford. (PD, 7/26/71, 1066, 1080)
Apollo program's contribution to lunar science was praised in Aviation Week & Space Technology editorial: "Apollo has taken lunar exploration out of the hands of tree-full-of-owls theorists and put it into the care of the lunar explorers, who will eventually provide sufficient data to unravel some of the major mysteries of the moon and our universe." (Hotz, Av Wk, 8/19/71, 7)
Los Angeles Harbor Commission granted one-year extension to lease with Hughes Tool Co. for storage area for Spruce Goose, mammoth wooden flying boat designed by Howard Hughes and flown once, on brief taxi test in 1947 [see Feb. 10]. (UPI, W Post, 7/21/71, C8)
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