Jun 25 1971
From The Space Library
Four-stage Javelin rocket, launched by NASA from Wallops Station at 4:44 am EDT, carried NOAA experiment to 662-km (411- mi) altitude. Objective of mission was to investigate region of ionosphere above maximum electron density, where it could be treated as electron gas. Data was to be compared with data from GSFC Langmuir probe in payload and with measurements taken simultaneously by NBS Ionosphere Sounding Station at Wallops Island, Va. Mission was unsuccessful.( WS Release 71-12; SR List)
NASA announced assignments within MSC Flight Crew Operations Directorate: Apollo 10 Astronaut Thomas P. Stafford had been named Deputy Director and Apollo 14 Commander Alan B. Shepard, Jr., would resume duties as Chief of Astronaut Office. Stafford also would assist Donald K. Slayton, Director of Flight Crew Operations, in technical matters related to flight crew activities. Post of Deputy Director had previously been vacant. (NASA Release 71- 116)
ComSatCorp filed with FCC for first-step rate reduction of 25% for Atlantic area satellite services, effective July 1, and proposed second-step reduction for leased voice-grade channels affecting Atlantic and Pacific area in early 1972, provided satellite traffic met forecast in-creases. (ComSatCorp Release 71-36)
Tass reported death of Soviet rocket designer Aleksey Isayev and identified him for first time as designer of engines for Vostok and Voskhod rockets and Soyuz manned spacecraft. Tass said Soviet unmanned "interplanetary stations" also had been created under Isayev's direction. Izvestia said in biographical sketch that Isayev was one of main creators of aircraft that had made world's first jet powered flight on May 5, 1942. (AP, W Star, 6/27/71, All)
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