July 1972
From The Space Library
U.S.S.R. launched Salyut spacecraft which failed to achieve orbit, Aviation Week & Space Technology reported. Magazine said spacecraft penetrated atmosphere, where it was detected by over-the horizon radars. One of two 2nd-stage engines stopped firing early; second stopped at end of programmed firing time with fuel remaining. (Av Week, 4/9/73, 21)
Use of Federal laboratories for research applied to national problems was advocated by electronics executive J. Ross Macdonald in Technology Review article: "We should recognize that the frontier, the challenge of our times, has moved from the outer space of the external world to the vastly more complex inner space of men's minds and their interaction. Our present federal scientific establishment is ill prepared to meet this challenge, and here lies the argument for a system of national laboratories better organized to help meet pressing national and worldwide needs, especially the greatest need of all: people who understand their own natures well enough to control themselves and their technological tools, moderate self-interest, fight irrationality, and set human goals above all else." (Tech Rev, 7-8/72, 10-1)
Lk John W. O'Neil, Vice Commander of Air Force Systems Command since 1969, would retire from Air Force Sept. 1, AFSC News review re-ported. President Nixon had nominated as successor to Gen. O'Neil, M/G Edmund F. O'Connor, who had also been nominated for promotion to grade of lieutenant general. (AFSC News review, 7/72, 1)
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