Nov 4 1974
From The Space Library
President Ford accepted a segment of crystal grown in the orbiting Skylab Workshop during January, from Dr. James C. Fletcher, NASA Administrator, and Massachusetts Institute of Technology Chair-man Howard W. Johnson. Johnson said the indium-antimonide crystal, produced in an MIT experiment, was the purest crystal with the longest life yet produced by man. Using it to carry power current, a computer could be the size of a postage stamp. (NASA Activities, 15 Nov 74, 17; PD, 11 Nov 74,1428; UPI, W Post, 5 Nov 74, 1)
4-15 November: The formal phase of the Spacelab Preliminary Requirements Review-first major milestone in the Spacelab program-was completed in Noordwijk, The Netherlands, and Bremen, West Germany. Representatives of NASA and the European Space Research Organization ap-proved 1077 review items, withdrew 56, and marked 100 for more study. Avionics and mechanical interfaces with the space shuttle were selected for particular attention before the next major milestone-the Systems Requirements Review. (Spacelab Newsletter 74-8; Spacelab/CVT Pro-gram Approval Document, Attach A, 1)
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