Sep 8 1974
From The Space Library
The Apollo command and service module for the Apollo Soyuz Test Project, which had been delivered to Cape Canaveral Air Force Station by a C-5A transport, arrived at Kennedy Space Center. The spacecraft completed the ASTP flight hardware with exception of the docking module, which would arrive at KSC in late October after thermal and vacuum tests at Johnson Space Center. (KSC Release 132-74)
President Ford as a Congressman had been a "staunch defender of space spending" whenever critics suggested cuts in NASA's budget, the San Diego Union reported. As minority leader, Ford had declared that the space program could be justified by its spinoffs. In April 1972, Ford had defended a $200-million space shuttle appropriation because he had believed that its loss would end the space program. (Macomber, SD Union, 8 Sept 74,19)
8-12 September: Dr. James C. Fletcher, NASA Administrator, visited the U.S.S.R. at the invitation of the Soviet Academy of Sciences. Interviewed by a Tass correspondent, Dr. Fletcher compared implementing the Apollo Soyuz Test Project with scaling a high mountain from which new vistas of Soviet-American scientific and technical cooperation would open.
With President of the Soviet Academy of Sciences Mstislav V. Keldysh, Dr. Fletcher visited the space flight control center near Moscow, from which the ASTP mission would be controlled in July 1975. Dr. Fletcher also visited the cosmonaut training center and the Apollo-Soyuz laboratory center with the head of the Intercosmos Council, Academician Boris N. Petrov, and discussed Soviet-American cooperation in exploration and peaceful uses of outer space with Deputy Chairman of the U.S.S.R. Council of Ministers Vladimir A. Kirillin. (NASA. Off of Admin, Daily Appointments Calendar; Tass, FBIS-Sov, 12 Sept 74, Ul ; 13 Sept 74, U1)
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