Oct 10 1973
From The Space Library
The U.S.S.R. launched Cosmos 598 from Plesetsk into orbit with a 331-km (205.7-mi) apogee, 204-km (126.8-mi) perigee, 89.9-min period, and 72.8° inclination. The satellite reentered Oct. 16. Cosmos 598 was the third of seven Soviet satellites launched and returned in quick succession, leading to Western speculation that they were monitor-ing the Arab-Israeli war [see Oct. 15]. Skylab 4 Astronauts Gerald P. Carr, Dr. Edward G. Gibson, and William R. Pogue, scheduled for Nov. 11 launch to crew the Skylab 1 Orbital Workshop (launched May 14), completed training in the Neutral Buoyancy Simulator at Marshall Space Flight Center. The astronauts had spent 80 hrs since April 1972 performing 24 different exercises in the simulated weightless environment to prepare them for the three extravehicular activities scheduled for their mission. The backup crew -Vance D. Brand, Dr. William B. Lenoir, and Dr. Don L. Lind-would complete their training at MSFC Oct. 12. (MSFC Release 73-145)
President Nixon presented National Medals of Science to recipients an-nounced Oct. 6, during a White House ceremony. He said: "We all know that because the United States needed a concentration on defense at a critical time, and then later a concentration on space, that this opened broad, new vistas in the area of science, and this also resulted in a much greater Federal contribution and the justification for it from a budgetary standpoint, but now as we turn from war to the works of peace, we must not cut back on that research. What we must do is to channel the efforts in the field of research to peaceful uses." (PD, 10/15/73, 1236-7)
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