October 1968

From The Space Library

Soviet Science in the News, Electro-Optical Systems, Inc., publication, said review of Soviet technical press indicated U.S.S.R. would attempt to orbit manned space station within the year and that it possessed "well-devised and thoroughly realizable designs.' First "rooms" of station would comprise Cosmos or Proton booster joined with Soyuz spacecraft. Additional rooms would combine solid and in­flatable elements like polyethylene. Tests of water recovery systems in Pacific indicated broadening of Soviet techniques. Six vessels had been completed for ocean recoveries of spacecraft. Conclusion of Soviet sci­entists that weightlessness had adverse effect on human skeletal compo­sition seemed to indicate space station would use artificial gravity. `Rotation of space station of from 40 to. 60 meters in diameter would generate sufficient artificial gravity to allow large number of scientists to work in space." (SSN, 10/68, 1; Aero Daily, 10/16/68)

Dr. Robert C. Seamans, Jr., former NASA Associate Administrator (1960-67) and now MIT professor and consultant to the NASA Adminis­trator, was nominated as AIAA President for 1969. (A&A, 10/68, 106)

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