Dec 22 1967
From The Space Library
ERC awarded $99,151 to TRW Systems, Inc., and $99,370 to RCA for research on a satellite system to provide more efficient navigation and air traffic control for aircraft and ships in North Atlantic area in 1975. Both companies would conduct eight-month studies to determine best technical approach, identifying related problems and requirements. (FRC Release 6747)
MSFC awarded Mason-Rust Co. a one-year, $8,990,826 contract extension for continued provision of services-including transportation, safety and security, supply, communications, and custodial services-at Michoud Assembly Facility. Extension brought total cost-plus-award-fee contract to $39,073,652. (MSFC Release 67-246)
US. R&D funding in 1968 would total about $26.5 billion, $700 million (3.5%) more than 1967 estimate, Battelle Memorial Institute (BMI) said in its annual forecast. BMI noted that "significantly, for the first time since reliable figures for total research and development expenditures became available, it is estimated that for [FY] 1968 the increase in Federal spending on research in the social sciences will be greater than the increase in the physical sciences." This trend, forecast said, was partly because of reductions in growth of military, space, and atomic energy programs and because of increasing national concern with education, health, urban, employment, and welfare problems. (AP, NYT, 12/23/67,7; BMI PIO)
ERC Director James C. Elms announced appointment of Dr. D. M. Warschauer as Chief of ERC's Component Technology Laboratory. Dr. Warschauer had been Manager of Itek Corp.'s Physics Laboratory since 1965. (ERC Release 6745)
J. V. Reistrup, in the Washington Post, reported that the Senate Committee on Aeronautical and Space Sciences had prepared a draft report on Apollo accident hearings which would be published .in early 1968. The report, revealed as a result of Rep. William Ryan's (D-N.Y.) Dec. 18 criticisms on Congress' failure to produce such a report, was said to be critical of NASA but to have reaffirmed Apollo lunar-landing goal. (Reistrup, W Post, 12/22/67, A l )
U.S.S.R. team to study UFO (unidentified flying object) sightings would consist of 18 scientists and Air Force officers supported by 1,000 field observers, Time reported [see Nov. 30]. Flurry of UFO sightings had been reported in recent weeks by presumably reliable Aeroflot and military pilots, who usually described them as sickle-shaped. (Time, 12/22/67,21)
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