May 14 1971
From The Space Library
Three men would spend up to 56 days in MSC altitude chamber in early 1972 to obtain medical data and evaluate medical experiment equipment for Skylab program, NASA announced. Test would closely simulate Skylab conditions so that differences observed during actual flight might be attributed to causes such as weightlessness which could not be simulated in chamber tests. Test would evaluate 16 medical experiments and selected items of experiment equipment and aid in training ground-based medical operations team for their participation during actual space flight. Chamber was 6 m (20 ft) in diameter and was being modified to resemble Skylab Workshop crew quarters. Atmosphere would be 70% oxygen and 30% nitrogen at 34.5 kilonewtons per sq m (5 psi) pressure with 45% to 60% humidity. (NASA Release 716)
Evidence obtained by two Aerobee sounding rockets launched from WSMR March 14, 1969, supported "closed universe theory" that expanding universe would slow down and then reverse itself until cosmos compressed again into fireball, team of NRL and Johns Hopkins Univ. scientists said in Nature. X-ray telescopes aboard rockets had observed x-ray flux in Coma and Virgo galaxies 20 times as great as would have been expected from individual galaxies. This proved gas in clusters was different from intergalactic gas and supported theory that gases were spread around universe in sufficient density to bring on collapse of universe. (Meekins, Fritz, at at., Nature, 5/14/71, 107-8)
Lockheed Aircraft Corp. issued statement saying it would be forced into bankruptcy if it could not find sufficient financing for U-1011 TriStar airbus. Bankruptcy could "create great confusion, greatly increased costs to the government and displacements and hazards for Lockheed employees and shareholders." (Text)
MSC announced issuance of RFPs on $400 000 design study of space shuttle auxiliary propulsion system. Study would define oxygen-hydrogen system compatible for use in both booster and orbital vehicles. (MSC Release 71-35)
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