Jun 11 1971
From The Space Library
Cosmos 427 was launched by U.S.S.R. from Plesetsk. Satellite entered orbit with 301-km (187-mi) apogee, 207-km (128.6-mi) perigee, 89.7-min period, and 72.9° inclination and reentered June 23. (GSFC SSR, 6/30/71; SF, 11/71, 456)
Dr. James C. Fletcher, NASA Administrator, delivered commencement address at Cal Tech: "One of the paths we can take-the obvious one -is to help develop some new area of high technology that will serve to strengthen our Nation's economic base, and thus indirectly, our whole culture. We don't necessarily have to perform this task with productivity foremost in our minds ... even though that's really the way it works. "A second path-and the demand for this path will be growing rapidly, I believe-is to attack directly the social, economic, and other serious problems of our time that have a definite technological component. Problems of ecology . . . have technological solutions. Urban and interurban transportation have technological solutions. As soon as we determine the appropriate political system which will spend the time and money, we already know a good deal about how to solve problems like these, and what remaining technology needs to be developed will undoubtedly appear. Other problems such as rural and ghetto health, housing, hunger, and poverty, have only a partly technological solution; still others, with strong human and sociological components, are even harder to deal with, and it may be a long time before problem- solvers learn to deal with `people' problems. . . . while it wasn't easy to land men on the Moon-it was nevertheless a straight- forward, engineering kind of problem. And as someone has said, there weren't any people between here and there." Third path-and he thought few persons "yet realize what a broad and important path it can be in years ahead"-was "to pursue long- range study and research on applications of problem-solving techniques to some of the more purely human problems." (Text)
NASA Wallops Station participation in Cornell Univ. experiment to obtain data on importance of celestial, magnetic, topographic, and meteorological cues in guidance systems of nocturnally migrating birds was announced by NASA. Station would provide support in tracking birds with 18-m (60-ft) dish on space range antenna (SPANDAR). Birds would be captured in nets, examined, and small magnets would be attached. They would then be released by weather balloon to continue flight under varying cloud conditions. Each bird would be tracked by radar as it made orientational decision and departed in migration. (NASA Release 71-98)
Space officials feared budget pressures could prompt either President Nixon or Congress to cancel final two Apollo missions in 1972, Wall Street Journal said. In event of cancellation, NASA would propose to use Apollo equipment for "lengthy orbital flights due to start in 1973" in the Skylab program. (WSJ, 6/11/71, 1)
NSF released Federal Support to Universities and Colleges, Fiscal Year 1970. Between 1969 and 1970 Federal funds had declined by $227 million, or nearly 7%, to level of $3.227 billion-lowest funding level since 1966 and first drop in actual dollars in Federal support since 1963. Decline might be attributed to shift in Government policy from direct Federal grants for facilities construction to subsidizing interest charges on loans from non-Government sources. (NSF Highlights, 6/11/71, 1)
Lockheed Aircraft Corp. Chairman Daniel J. Haughton told Senate Committee on Banking and Currency he would resign if change in Lock-heed management was condition for firms receiving $250- million Government loan guarantee. (Samuelson, W Post, 6/12/71, Al)
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