May 3 1970
From The Space Library
With exception of Mission Control, MSC buildings normally open to public had remained open during Apollo 13 crisis, New York Times commented. Visitors could watch-from overhead catwalk in Building 5-scientists and astronauts devising techniques for Apollo 13's return to earth. (Gordon NYT, 5/3/70, 7)
Although Communist China officially had entered space age with April 24 launch of satellite, much of the country's industrial machinery was "product of an earlier age," New York Times said. Workers at Shanghai factories had said they "used the equipment of the twenties to turn out products of the seventies." While Communist China's space success reflected "application of amore advanced technology," even this was said to have been achieved "because the Chinese people adhered to the 'principle of independence and self reliance.' " (NYT, 5/3/70, 18)
Col. Gen. Nikita V. Yegerov, ideological chief of U.S.S.R.'s strategic rocket forces, died at age 62. (W Post, 5/7/70, B 14)
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