Apr 4 1977
From The Space Library
The rapid approach of the Martian winter, whose temperatures would fall below -123°C, had halted science experiments using the Viking 2 lander, NASA announced. Problems with the lander's sample arm had forced controllers at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory to cancel a final biology experiment. The meteorology station and the seismic instrument would use power to gather data during the winter; all other power would go toward maintaining survivable heat levels inside the lander. (NASA Release 77-69)
Aviation Week reported that President Carter had nominated Langhorne M. Bond, state secretary of transportation for Illinois, to head the Federal Aviation Administration, and Quentin Taylor, FAA director in New England, as deputy administrator. .(Av Wk, Apr 4/77, 23)
The Apollo program was a tough act to follow, Space Shuttle pilot Lt. Col. Charles Gordon Fullerton said in a Today wire service report. Acknowledging the declining public interest in space, Fullerton noted that, after Apollo, "Everything else has to be anticlimactic." (Today, Apr 4/77, 1A)
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