Feb 3 1969
From The Space Library
NASA announced it had extended $69,692,000 contract with Bellcomm, Inc., to provide systems analysis, study, planning, and technical support of manned space flight. Value of one-year cost-plus-fixed-fee contract extension was $11,483,000. (NASA Release 69-25)
February 3-5: London accorded Apollo 8 Astronaut Frank Borman and family full celebrity status, including front page newspaper coverage, taped TV interviews, and cheers from schoolchildren. Borman lectured before Royal Society of Scientists Feb. 3 and on Feb. 4 was presented to Queen Elizabeth II at Buckingham Palace and visited Prime Minister Harold Wilson and House of Commons. Borman at U.S. Embassy presented NASA'S Manned Spaceflight Group Achievement Award to Station Manager James McDowell of NASA Communications Switching Station in London and Public Service Group Achievement Award to C. James Gill, director of U.K.'s postoffice telecommunications system. (Lee, NYT, 2/4/69, 4; W Post, 2/5/69, A18; C Trib, 2/5/69; NASA Int Aff)
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