Nov 22 1976
From The Space Library
MSFC announced it had shipped to GFSC the experiment payload for SPAR 111, third in a series of about 15 space-processing applications rockets being flown over a 15-yr period to obtain space-processing data in near-zero gravity until Space Shuttle flights become available in the 1980s. The scientific payload built by MSFC would be integrated with GFSC components-igniter, separator, control and recovery systems-and shipped to the U.S. Army White Sands Missile Range, N.M., for a scheduled mid-December launch. SPAR payloads recovered by parachute would be forwarded to investigators for analysis. The SPAR flight would provide about 5 min of near-zero gravity in which to perform materials processing. (MSFC Release 76-204)
MSFC announced that officials from NASA Hq and three of its field centers were participating in a Spacelab preliminary design review being held by ESA at Noordwijk, The Netherlands, 19-26 Nov. Besides representatives of MSFC, lead center for Spacelab design in the U.S., employees of KSC and JSC were attending the review to see that basic design requirements had been met before construction of the engineering model of Spacelab began. A NASA in-house review had been held at MSFC 15-17 Nov. (MSFC Release 76-203)
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