Jun 22 1971
From The Space Library
NASA received design patents No. 220 980 through 220 985 for early conceptual designs of space shuttle. Inventors were employees of Lockheed Aircraft Corp. and North American Rockwell Corp. Space Div. (Jones, NYT, 6/26/71; Patent Off Pro)
MSC announced selection of GE Houston Operations to receive $576 730, cost-plus-fixed-fee contract for Skylab flight garments and crew provisions. (MSC Release 71-41)
Aerobee 150 sounding rocket was launched by NASA from WSMR carrying MSC experiment to study atmospheric composition. Rocket and instruments functioned satisfactorily. (SR list)
Soviet scientist Anatoly Fedoseyev, said to have defected to West on May 27 [see June 19], had been given permission to stay in England, London Times reported. (London Times, 6/222/71; British Embassy no)
Sen. Jacob K. Javits (R-N.Y.) introduced for himself and cosponsors amendment to H.R. 7109, FY 1972 NASA authorization bill that would require "reasonable and economic" percentage of recycled scrap materials be used in NASA construction and procurement programs. (CR, 6/22/71, 59615-20)
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