Sep 20 1977
From The Space Library
NASA announced it would sign a $5.6 million contract with General Electric Co. to build an atmospheric cloud physics laboratory for launch on the Shuttle in the early 1980s [see July 11]. NASA had already selected 8 of 26 experiments for the ACPL on early Spacelab missions. (NASA Release 77-197; MSFC Release 77-173)
NASA announced that Dr. Robert A. Frosch, the agency administrator, had approved awards totaling $39 800 to 7 NASA and 2 contractor employees for their contributions to the agency's program. The awards covered 5 major efforts: a central timing system for tracking stations using microwave signals bounced off the moon; a new silica insulation material to protect the Shuttle during reentry into the atmosphere; a temperature-resistant coating to cover the Shuttle insulation; an economical and durable black-chrome coating for commercial type solar collectors; and a new optical glass surface to improve Landsat images. Largest single award, $10 000, went to Mahlon F. Easterling of JPL for development of the timing system. (NASA Release 77-195)
NASA announced 1t had appointed Dr. Anthony Calio as Hq associate administrator for applications as of Oct. 1. Dr. Calio, had served as deputy associate administrator for space science since Nov. 1975. He had begun working for NASA in 1963 at the electronics research center in Cambridge, Mass., then at NASA Hq. In 1968 he transferred to JSC and in 1969 became its director for science and applications. He had previously been a nuclear physicist with Westinghouse and the American Machine and Foundry Co., and was in the U.S. Army Chemical Corps from 1954 to 1956. Among his honors were NASA medals for exceptional service, 1969; exceptional scientific achievement, 1971; distinguished service, 1973. (NASA anno Sept 20/77; NASA Release 77-200)
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