Feb 25 1971
From The Space Library
U.S.S.R. launched Cosmos 397 into orbit with 2241-km (1392.5-mi) apogee, 584-km (362.9-mi) perigee, 113.8-min period, and 65.8° inclination. (GSFC SSR, 2/28/71)
President Nixon addressed Nation by radio upon transmitting foreign policy report for 1970s to Congress: "Over the past two years in some fields the Soviet Union and the United States have moved ahead together. We have taken the first step toward cooperation in outer space. We have both ratified the treaty limiting the spread of nuclear weapons. Just 2 weeks ago, we signed a treaty to prohibit nuclear weapons from the seabeds." Most significant result of negotiations between U.S. and U.S.S.R. in past year "could be in the field of arms control." SALT had produced "most searching examination of the nature of strategic competition ever conducted between our nations." If talks continued in cooperative vein there was "reason to hope that specific agreements will be reached to curb the arms race." (PD, 3/1/71, 298-304)
President Nixon transmitted to Congress second annual report on foreign policy, United States Foreign Policy for the 1970's: Building for Peace: Space was "clearest example of the necessity for international scientific cooperation and the benefits that accrue from it. The world community has already determined and agreed that space is open to all and can be made the special province of none. Space is the new frontier of man, both a physical and an intellectual frontier.... As mutual help and cooperation were essential to life on the American frontier, so it is on the frontier of space. It is with that sense that we approach the sharing of both the burdens and the fruits of our space activity. . . . We have some 250 agreements with 74 countries covering space cooperation." Space was "the only area of which it can be literally said that the potential for cooperation is infinite. . . . We have opened virtually all of our NASA space projects to international participation." President said he would submit to Senate shortly ICAO treaty which "recognizes aircraft hijacking as a crime . . . and ensures that hijackers will be subject to prosecution or extradition if apprehended on the territory of contracting states." U.S. intended "to exert every effort to ensure the widest possible international acceptance of this convention." President's report said it was "settled U.S. policy to encourage international cooperation in basic science." Closely allied was national policy on technology exchange. U.S. preeminence in both fields posed question as to extent of its sharing scientific and technological knowledge. "There are obvious security implications in many technological developments, for example in the nuclear and space fields." U.S. policy, however, "is to keep those areas as circumscribed as possible, and to take the leadership in encouraging the exchange of scientific and technological information." (PD, 3/1/71, 305-77)
Appointment of Dr. Marshall E. Alper, Manager of JPL's Applied Mechanics Section since 1964., to succeed Howard H. Haglund as Manager of JPL's Civil Systems Project Office was announced by Dr. William H. Pickering, JPL Director. Haglund had been appointed Project Manager of DOT's automated transit system, .PL's principal civil systems project. (JPL Release 571)
February 25-26: Crew station review, during which stowed equipment was fitted to first flight model LRV for first time, was held at Boeing plant in Kent, Wash. Review concentrated on manual tasks of astronauts in setting up and operating LRV. Activities included fitness checks of hardware to be installed on LRV after deployment from LM, walkthrough rehearsal of manual loading and preparation of LRV equipment, and reverification of relationships between stowed components and LRV. (MSFC Release 71-33)
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