Nov 7 1972
From The Space Library
Annual Revolution Day parade in Moscow featured only muted display of military power. One of leading floats reproduced Pravda headline requesting public support for U.S.-U.S.S.R. agreements signed during year. Politburo members, led by Communist Party Secretary Leonid I. Brezhnev, reviewed display but only speaker was Defense Minister Andrey Grechko, who called for "peaceful coexistence of states with different social systems." No new weapons were shown. {Seeger, LA Times, 11/8/72, 19)
Unidentified Administration officials told New York Times there was evidence that People's Republic of China had deployed strategic missiles capable of reaching Moscow. Missiles were said to have 5600-km (3500-mi) range, carry 3-megaton warheads, and be installed in well protected launching sites. Times said officials had declined to reveal source of evidence but paper surmised source to be reconnaissance satellite. (Beecher, NYT, 11/8/72, 67)
November 7-8: Goddard Space Flight Center sponsored symposium "Significant Accomplishments in Technology" at Greenbelt, Md. Fifty-two papers covered spacecraft and vehicle technology, sensor technology, ground operations, and communications and navigation. Robert J. Goss of GSFC reported design changes had increased Thor-Delta launch vehicle performance while maintaining reliability and low cost. Payload that could be placed in synchronous transfer orbit would have increased from 45 kg (100 lbs) in 1960 to 680 kg (1500 lbs) when H-1 booster was operational in 1974. Joseph Arlauskas of GSFC de-scribed multispectral scanner in orbit on Erts 1, launched July 23, that permitted simultaneous imaging in three visible bands and one near-infrared, to provide data for management of environmental resources. GSFC also sponsored symposium "Significant Accomplishments in Science" on high- energy and solar astronomy; optical and ultraviolet astronomy; planetary, lunar, and cometary studies; earth observations; and earth physics. Dr. John A. Philpotts of GSFC reported that three years study of lunar samples from Apollo and U.S.S.R. Luna missions showed essentially three kinds of rocks: iron-rich basalts in mare basins, KREEP basalts in Mare Imbrium and Oceanus Procellarum, and anorthosites in highlands. He thought there was enough material in hand "to work out the origin of these . . . rocks, and from that, the evolution of the moon and its relation to other solar system materials." (Proceedings, NASA SP--326, SP-331)
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