Mar 23 1971
From The Space Library
Dr. George M. Low, Acting NASA Administrator, testified before House Committee on Appropriations' Subcommittee on HUD-Space-Science in support of NASA FY 1972 budget request: "We have recently settled on a single set of performance characteristics for the preliminary design of the two-stage fully reusable [space] shuttle. Alternate approaches are also still under study. We expect to be in a position to make decisions this summer on how we will proceed with airframe design or development in FY 1972. The $100 million recommended in the FY 1972 budget will support, in addition to the engine development, either continued intensive design studies and related efforts or the initiation of airframe development." Dr. Low noted "tremendous interest in exploration during Apollo 11, when an estimated 107 million people in the U.S. watched our first manned lunar landing mission; and we saw it again last month, when 104 million watched Apollo 14." (Text)
NASA announced award of $5-million, cost-plus-award-fee contract to Mason-Rust for support services at Michoud Assembly Facility. Contract was for one year with two one-year options. (NASA Release 71-47)
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