Sep 6 1979
From The Space Library
NASA reported that an unmanned Soviet Cosmos satellite to be launched in mid-September would carry 13 experiments from the United States along with some from the Soviet Union and other countries, all designed to study effects of weightlessness on physiological processes. ARC would manage the U.S. portion of the project, in which 40 scientists representing 18 U.S. universities and research groups would participate.
Major payload would be 38 white rats and 60 fertile Japanese quail eggs, scheduled to orbit about three weeks. The Soviet Union would make a first attempt to breed rats in space, separating males and females until the second flight day; two control sets of rats on Earth would be housed and fed like those in space, one exposed to stresses such as launch and reentry but not zero gravity. Three U.S. experiments would use material hand carried to Moscow a week before launch and returned to ARC after recovery. (NASA Release 79-114; ARC Release 79-39)
Neil E. Goldschmidt, nominated as secretary of transportation, told a Senate commerce committee hearing that after confirmation he intended to look into FAA safety policies, the Washington Star reported. FAA was criticized after two major crashes: the collision over San Diego of a small plane and a jetliner that killed 144 persons and the crash of a DC-10 jet near Chicago that killed 273. Sworn in as a recess appointee in August, Goldschmidt would require confirmation to continue in the position. (W Star, Sept 6/79, A-20)
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