Jul 18 1973
From The Space Library
RCA Corp. announced that its subsidiaries RCA Global Communications, Inc., and RCA Alaska Communications, Inc., had signed a $3 750 000 contract with McDonnell Douglas Corp. to develop an up-rated Thor-Delta launch vehicle to launch domestic satellites. It was the first time private industry had set design requirements and provided funds to modify a launch vehicle. Under contract terms, the Thor-Delta payload capacity would be augmented by 30% to enable RCA to place high-capacity domestic communications satellites into geostationary or-bit above the equator economically. (RCA Release)
Langley Research Center engineers and technicians were cooperating with investigators from West Virginia Univ. in a summer study to improve rural West Virginia housing with space age technology. The preliminary study was to lead to eventual construction and demonstration of a self-contained house or small community, "Space Station West Virginia," incorporating modern technology to supply energy, water and sewage, fire control, and systems analysis. (NASA Release 73-132)
July 18-27: The American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics sponsored an aeronautical technology display at the Soviet Exhibition of Economic Achievement in Moscow. AIAA also cosponsored, with the U.S.S.R. Committee for Science and Technology, a joint Symposium on Aeronautical Technology at the exhibition July 23 to 27. Advanced equipment to modernize civil air traffic control systems was displayed or depicted by 27 U.S. companies and reviewed by an estimated 25 000 aviation specialists from the U.S.S.R. and its East European allies. The joint symposium-opened by Federal Aviation Administrator Alexander P. Butterfield and the Soviet Minister of Civil Aviation, Gen. Boris P. Bugaev- covered air traffic control, airport and air system facilities, and new aircraft technology. Among participants were members of the House Committee on Science and Astronautics' Subcommittee on International Cooperation in Science and Space. ( AIAA Release 7/20/73; Program; Shabad, NYT, 7/22/73, 43)
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