Aug 5 1977
From The Space Library
Space News for this day. (1MB PDF)
NASA announced that Bradford Johnston, associate administrator for the Office of Applications since June 1976, would resign effective Sept. 30. Dr. Robert Frosch, NASA administrator, said that Johnston's contributions to useful applications of space techniques had made the program more responsive to national needs. (NASA anno Aug 5/77; NASA Release 77-166)
The W. Post reported that London's Intl. Assn. Against Painful Experiments on Animals had protested Soviet government use of white rats in space research, following USSR launch of a spacecraft carrying several white rats for an international study on weightlessness. (W Post, Aug 5/77, A-13)
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