Apr 22 1973
From The Space Library
The development of Laserphoto-a system of news photo transmission using a laser beam receiver to deliver dry glossy prints, cut and stacked, to editors' desks-was announced in New York by Associated Press President J. Wes Gallagher. AP also announced plans for electronic dark rooms where photos would be stored in computers, edited on video screens, and transmitted at high speeds. Both systems had been developed at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. (AP, B Sun, 4/23/73, A3; WSJ, 4/23/73, 1)
April 22-30: A Proton booster reportedly was launched by the U.S.S.R., failed, and fell into the Pacific Ocean during the final week of April. The Washington Post later quoted U.S. space observers as saying the booster probably had carried a Lunokhod moon vehicle. The Post said this failure and the failure of the Salyut 2 (launched April 3) had thrown the 1975 U.S.-U.S.S.R. Apollo-Soyuz mission in doubt because both failures had involved hardware managed by the same Soviet space officials. (O'Toole, W Post, 5/4/73, Al)
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