Dec 16 1975
From The Space Library
Astronaut Donald K. (Deke) Slayton had been appointed Deputy Director of Flight Operations for Approach and Landing Test at the Johnson Space Center, announced Center Director Dr. Christopher C. Kraft, Jr. In the newly created position, Slayton would be responsible for planning and implementing the approach and landing test project for the Space Shuttle program. He most recently had been docking module pilot of the U.S. crew for the Apollo-Soyuz Test Project. (NASA Release 75-314; JSC Release 75-100)
Langley Research Center awarded a $1 5-million 30-mo contract to Rockwell International's Autonetics Group for a highly reliable solidstate satellite data recorder using bubble-domain technology. The new recorder, with a memory capacity of 100 million bits, would achieve a tenfold improvement in reliability over mechanically driven recorders now in use. The bubble-domain technology would make the recorder about a third the size and half the weight of present recorders and would require only half the power for operation. Dr. R. L. Stermer of LaRC said a NASA decision to define hardware using the bubble-domain technology for use in the late 1970s would be greatly influenced by success of the new recorder. (Rockwell Release AG-9)
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