Jun 18 1973
From The Space Library
The first relay of a telecast across the U.S. by a domestic communications satellite was made. A cable TV program featuring House Speaker Carl B. Albert (D-Okla.) was transmitted from Germantown, Md., by American Satellite Corp. antenna via Canadian Anik 2 comsat to Anaheim, Calif., received by new mobile ground station, and delivered to cable TV systems. (SBD, 6/2/73, 292; Am Sat Corp Pio)
President Nixon welcomed Soviet Communist Party General Secretary Leonid Brezhnev on his first visit to the U.S. Brezhnev had arrived June 17 and was greeted on the White House lawn by President Nixon June 18 at the beginning of U.S. summit meetings. President Nixon recalled agreements signed during the May 22-29, 1972, Moscow summit meetings between the U.S. and U.S.S.R.: "What has happened since those agreements . . . lead me to conclude that this year at the summit in Washington we will not only build on the foundation that we laid last year, but that we have the opportunity to make even greater progress than we made last year toward the goals that we share in common-the goals of better relations between our two governments, a better life for our people, . . . and above all, the goal that goes beyond our two countries, but to the whole world-the goal of lifting the burden of armaments from the world and building a structure of peace." Brezhnev responded: "The distances between our countries are shrinking, not only because we travel aboard modern aircraft following a well-charted route, but also because we share one great goal, which is to ensure a lasting peace for the peoples of our countries, and to strengthen security on our planet." (PD, 6/25/73, 787-8)
U.S.S. Wasp, World War II aircraft carrier and NASA prime recovery vessel, made her last voyage-to the ship breakers' yards at Kearny, N.J. The 30-yr-old ship had been purchased for scrap metal by Union Mineral Alloys Corp. for $505 250. She had served as the prime recovery vessel for NASA Gemini-Titan manned space flights: Gemini 4 (June 3-7, 1965), Gemini 6 (Dec. 15-16, 1965), Gemini 7 (Dec. 4-18, 1965), Gemini 9 (June 3-6, 1966), and Gemini 12 (Nov. 11-15, 1966). (Phalon, NYT, 6/19/73, 39; NASA Hist Off)
Rockwell International Corp. Space Div. announced the award of a $30-million-plus subcontract to LTV Aerospace Corp. Vought Systems Div. to design and develop the leading-edge structural subsystem of the space shuttle orbiter's thermal protection system. Final details were being negotiated. (m Release SP-45)
Apollo 17 Astronauts Eugene A. Cernan, Ronald E. Evans, and Dr. Harrison H. Schmitt arrived in Pakistan to discuss the U.S. space program with Pakistani President Zulfikar Ali Bhutto and present a Pakistani flag they had taken to the moon during their Dec. 7-19, 1972, mission. (um, W Post, 6/20/73, A18)
Dr. Carl E. Sagan, Cornell Univ. astronomer and NASA consultant, arrived in Paris to receive an International Galabert Prize for space research. Other recipients would be Soviet Academician M. Y. Marov and French astronomer Adouin Dollfus. (FBIS-Sov, 6/21/73, G15)
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