Jul 24 1970
From The Space Library
President Nixon spoke at Pioneer Day ceremonies in Salt Lake City, Utah: "Just a year ago. . .I welcomed back from the moon three men who had been pioneers in landing on the moon. . . . I can only say that the spirit that took those three men to the moon. . .has built the greatest country on earth." (PD,8/3/70, 995)
USAF C-5A Galaxy, world's largest aircraft, flew first cargo flight between U.S. and Europe-from Charleston AFB, S. C., to Dover AFB, Del.; Rhein Main Air Base, Germany; Lakenheath RAF Station, England; and Torrejon Air Base, Spain. Regular U.S.-Europe C-5 cargo flights would begin in August. (DOD Release 594-70; USAF PIO)
Western Europe wanted full partnership in U.S. post-Apollo space program and access to any inventions that emerged from it, Theo Lefevre, President of European Space Conference, said at Brussels meeting. Conference of 13 nations asked Lefevre to visit Washington, D.C., in September to examine financial and political conditions of European participation. Conference agreed to establish new space agency to replace ELDO, ESRO, and CETs and develop program to give Western Europe operational systems of telecommunication satellites, 1978-1980; begin joint program with U.S. for air traffic control satellites; finance studies for weather satellites; and proceed with construction of Europa 1 and 2 rockets and development of Europa 3. (AP, NYT, 7/25/70)
International cooperation in space was described in Science by Arnold W. Frutkin, NASA Assistant Administrator for International Affairs: NASA had developed extensive program which "opens the entire range of its space activities to foreign participation and benefit." Limitations in program lay in areas of manned space flight, large booster development, and cooperation with U.S.S.R. Low level of European space budgeting accounted for gaps in manned space flight and booster development. Lack of Soviet cooperation "seems to rest with Soviet political views rather than with technical problems or any lack of interest by the United States.." Despite restricting factors abroad, there was "every reason to persevere with existing and improved programs for international cooperation." (Science, 7/24/70, 333-8)
NASA announced selection of Philco-Ford Corp. for negotiation of $12 500 000, cost-plus-award-fee contract to develop Synchronous Meteorological Satellite (SMS) system that would become part of National Operational Meteorological Satellite System (NOMSS), managed and operated by ESSA. (NASA Release 70-127)
Public exhibit of lunar samples by NASA was described by George M. Low, NASA Deputy Administrator, in letter to Rep. Olin E. Teague (D-Tex.), Chairman of Special Ad Hoc Subcommittee of House Committee on Science and Astronautics. "Even with a reasonable allowance for overlap in our attendance figures for individuals who may have seen exhibits more than once, these figures indicate that over six and a half million people in the United States have seen a lunar sample." Public displays had been accompanied by exhibit and supporting material so that viewers "come away... with some appreciation of its broader meaning." NASA believed "exhibits at 15 major science museums to date, with 41 more planned for the coming year, in addition to the exhibit accompanying the Apollo 11 capsule to all 50 state capitals and the Smithsonian exhibit are especially effective." (CR, 817/70, E7445-6)
President Nixon approved H.R. 16595, $550-million NSF Authorization Act of 1971, which became P.L. 91-356. (PD, 8/3/70,1007)
Dr. Lee A. DuBridge, Presidential Science Adviser, said in Science editorial: "Granted that many of our current problems, must be cured more by social, political, and economic instruments than by science and technology, yet science and technology must still be the tools to make further advances in such things as clean air, clean water, better transportation, better housing, better medical care, more adequate welfare programs, purer foods, conservation of resources, and many other areas.. The discovery and use of knowledge has always been relevant to a humane future. They are equally relevant today." (Science, 7/24/70, 331)
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