Mar 12 1970
From The Space Library
House Committee on Science and Astronautics ordered favorably reported H.R. 15695, FY 1971 NASA authorization with amendments that added $297.8 million to President Nixon's budget request of $3.333 billion. New authorization total of $3.631 billion included addition of $144.9 million to Apollo budget request, for total Apollo allocation of $1.1 billion, and $155 million for space flight operations, making total of $670.2 million in that category. (H Rpt 91-929; CR, 3/12/70, D225; W Post, 3/13/70, A10)
NASA announced award of $22-million, 45-mo, cost-plus-incentive award-fee contract to General Electric Co. for management, sustaining engineering, logistics, and support for Saturn ground-support equipment and for operations and maintenance of Saturn systems development facility. Contract, to be managed by MSFC under OMSF direction, was expected to achieve substantial savings by consolidating work previously performed under six separate contracts. (NASA Release 70-40)
AFSC announced acceptance by SAMSO's 6555th Aerospace Test Wing of new, $1.6-million spacecraft environmental enclosure for Titan IIIC Launch Complex 40 at Cape Kennedy. Enclosure, 25 m (83 ft) tall, extending from 9th to 14th level of 73-m (240-ft) mobile service tower, would allow crews to adjust and repair spacecraft in place instead of removing them from MST and transporting them to "clean rooms." (AFSC Release 44.70)
NAE President Eric A. Walker announced selection of Dr. C. Stark Draper, vice-director of MIT's C. Stark Draper Laboratory (formerly Instrumentation Laboratory), to receive NAE's fifth Founders Medal. Dr. Draper would receive medal and deliver Founders Lecture at luncheon April 30 in conjunction with NAE's annual meeting. (NAE Release)
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