Jun 25 1972
From The Space Library
Soviet engineer V. Borisov commented in Sotsialisticheskaya Industriya on U.S. and U.S.S.R. cooperation: "The agreement on cooperation in researching and utilizing space for peaceful purposes concluded between the governments of the USSR and United States opens up broad prospects. . . . Compatible docking systems on all spacecraft will not only open up the path to joint space flights. at is possible and no less important is the fact that such systems will enable the spacecraft of one country to come to the aid of crews of another country's spacecraft should they be in distress. World science will be enriched not only by the experiment on the docking ... but also by cooperation in many other fields. This includes joint work in the sphere of space biology. Perhaps we shall succeed in solving many problems more rapidly-such as . . . the influence of weightlessness on the human organism." (FBIS-Sov Int Aff, 6/30/72, G3)
President Nixon was riding "crest of popularity" following his Moscow summit meeting, with 60% of U.S. public approving his performance in office, pollster George H. Gallup reported in Philadelphia Inquirer. (P Inq; 6/25/72, 14A)
Soviet newspaper Sotsialisticheskaya Industriya had published article on "curious stories" from Cape Kennedy, Philadelphia Sunday Bulletin reported. Article had said angry alligator had tripped alarm system protecting rocket at launch site few seconds before launch; Polaris rocket had exploded about 0.8 km (0.5 mi) from launch site causing bush fire that frightened poisonous snakes into buildings; and wood-pecker near electronic equipment had caused launch delay. (P Bull, 6/25/72)
Univ. of Washington architectural student R. Danning Roberts had won $3000 first prize in competition for interior design of orbiting space station sponsored by NASA and California Council of American Institute of Architects, San Diego Union reported. (SD Union, 6/25/72)
Unidentified flying objects (UFOs) were still being reported despite Air Force study that had found in 1968 that further study "could not longer be justified," New York Times said. Spokesman for Aerial Phenomenon Research Organization-private investigation group- had said, "We still get about 1,000 reports a year . . . about 60 per cent of them lights and others sightings of disks." (Waldron, NYT, 6/25/72, 40)
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