Oct 12 1972
From The Space Library
U.S.S.R. proposed global ban on unrestricted use of satellites for direct TV broadcasting during debate on peaceful uses of outer space by United Nations First (main political) Committee. Soviet delegate Yakov A. Malik submitted draft of proposed convention as presented to U.N. Secretary General Kurt M. Waldheim Aug. 8. Signatories would agree to transmit to other countries by satellite only if recipient countries agreed. U.S. delegate Ambassador George Bush, speaking first, told Committee U.S. was concerned over limiting "what promises to become an important new means of making information widely and immediately available to the people of the world." (Astrachan, W Post, 10/13/72, A23; Worldwide Press Service, Intl Her Trib, 10/14-15/72, 5)
Nobel Prize for medicine for 1972 was awarded jointly to Dr. Gerald M. Edelman of Rockefeller Univ. and Dr. Rodney R. Porter of Oxford Univ. for separate research on chemical structure of antibodies. In 1959 both scientists had presented first results of investigations that had since led to almost complete clarification of essential questions on blood proteins that played important part in human body's defense against infection and development of several diseases. Dr. Edelman and Dr. Porter would share $101 000 prize money. (NYT, 10/13/72, 1)
Nike-Apache sounding rocket launched by NASA from Kiruna, Sweden, carried Dudley Observatory experiment to 108.0-km (67.1-mi) altitude. Launch was third and last in series to collect and identify cosmic dust particles from Giacobini meteor shower [see Oct. 9]. Rocket and instruments performed satisfactorily and good data were obtained. (NASA Rpt SRL)
Cleveland Press editorial commented on NASA catalog of inventions available for commercial licensing [see Sept. 8]. "We already know of such NASA-originated benefits as satellite communication, land surveys and crop inspection. The catalog simply is another illustration of the spinoff importance of the space program." (Cleveland Press, 10/12/72)
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