Aug 9 1977
From The Space Library
JSC announced it had awarded Lockheed Electronics Co. of Houston a 2yr cost-plus-award-fee contract estimated at $4 004 715 for technical support services at the Slidell Computer Complex's earth resources facility in La. Lockheed would furnish about 80 persons to operate and maintain the data acquisition laboratory, data systems laboratory, data processing laboratory, and data preparation laboratory. (JSC Release 77-45)
NASA announced that Dr. Hans Mark, former director of Ames Research Center, had' been sworn in at the Pentagon, Washington, D.C., Aug. 9, as Undersecretary of the Air Force by Defense Secretary Harold Brown. Dr. Mark, ARC director from Feb. 1969 to July 1977, had taught nuclear engineering at the Univ. of Calif. at Berkeley and engineering at Stanford Univ.; he had also taught at Boston Univ.- and the Mass. Inst. of Technology.
Born in Germany in 1929, he had become a U.S. citizen in 1945 and had been a consultant to the Institute for Defense Analysis (1958-1961), the USAF Scientific Advisory Board (1969-1976), and other defense related and scientific organizations. C.A. Syvertson would be acting director of ARC until a successor was named. (ARC Release 77-38 NASA anno Aug 15/77)
NASA announced that Dr. Bruce T. Lundin would retire as director of Lewis Research Center Aug. 26 after 34yr with NASA and its predecessor, NACA. LeRC deputy director Dr. Bernard Lubarsky would be acting director until a successor was named. In 1943, Dr. Lundin had begun working at the NACA Lewis Research Center on improvement of World War II aircraft engines.
When NASA was established in 1958, Dr. Lundin became assistant director of LeRC; in 1961 he became associate director for development, working on space propulsion and power generation. In May 1968 he was deputy associate administrator at NASA Hq, then acting associate administrator for advanced research and technology. He became director of LeRC as of Nov. 1, 1969, and had led the center's research on solving the nation's energy problems. He had not announced his future plans. (NASA Release 77-167; NASA anno Aug 9/77)
LaRC announced that the NASA/ASEE engineering systems design team would give a final presentation Aug. 12 on the role of aerospace technology in agriculture. The team of faculty from local colleges and universities would discuss agricultural aircraft, remote sensing, and impact on the social and physical environment. The Old Dominion Univ. would distribute the team's written report later in 1977. (LaRC Release 77-36)
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