Sep 13 1971
From The Space Library
S-IC-511 1st stage for Saturn V launch vehicle that would launch Apollo 16 toward moon in 1972 was shipped by barge from Michoud Assembly Facility, to arrive at KSC Sept. 17. (MSFC Release 71-152)
MSC announced contract awards. Grumman Aerospace Corp. received $4 364 849 supplemental agreement for changes in Apollo LM con-tract. Agreement formally incorporated procedural changes previously authorized by NASA and brought total value of contract since January 1963 to $1 788 034 399. Boeing Co. was awarded $4.3-million, one-year, cost-plus- fixed-fee contract for reliability, quality assurance, and flight safety engineering at MSC. (MSC Releases 71-67, 71-68)
Senate by vote of 55 to 21 rejected amendment proposed by Sen. Gaylord Nelson (D-Wis.) to H.R. 8687, FY 1972 military procurement authorization. Amendment would have frozen funds for USN F-14 and USAF B-1 and F-15 aircraft programs until final environment impact statement had been made on programs. (CR, 9/13/71, S14181-14210)
Pressure was increasing on Nixon Administration to relax aeronautical satellite system policy to allow first preoperational system to be jointly owned by ESRO and FAA, Aviation Week & Space Technology reported. Original decision that system should be owned by commercial company with FAA leasing its service had become unpopular because of legal complexities. (Av Wk, 9/13/71, 21)
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