Jun 30 1976
From The Space Library
In a foreword to Volume 2, Program Implementation, of the Energy Research and Development Administration's massive report, A National Plan for Energy Research, Development & Demonstration: Creating Energy Choices for the Future, ERDA Administrator Robert C. Seamans, Jr., called attention to the 30% increase in funding for ERDA in the 1977 budget, whose purpose was to speed the achievement of long-term energy independence, encourage cost-sharing with private industry (to avoid federal funding of projects "more appropriately the responsibility of the private sector"), and support commercial demonstration of synthetic fuel production through loan guarantees. The plans contained in the more than 400 pages of Vol. 2, he said, represented the agency's considered judgment as to which were reasonable to pursue based on current information, but left room for frequent reassessment in view of technical development, economic situations, and environmental and social conditions. (Text, ERDA 76-1)
Bernard Deloffre, director of the European Space Agency's Spacelab program since 1 March 1975, resigned his position. ESA announced that the Director General, Roy Gibson, would personally manage the program with the assistance of Prof. Massimo Trella, ESA technical inspector, until appointment of a new Spacelab director. (ESA newsletter Aug 76, 3)
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