Jul 11 1980
From The Space Library
Space News for this day. (1MB PDF)
NASA reported award of an $8.5 million contract to Thiokol Corporation for Caster IV auxiliary motors for the Delta launch vehicle, part of a fixed-price supplement to an existing contract being negotiated with Thiokol for 63 of these motors at an estimated price of $20.9 million, all to be delivered to the KSC launch site by the end of 1982.
The Wall Street Journal commented that the "old-fashioned" liquid-fuel Delta rockets had long served to put vehicles into space, and its job was to have been taken over by the reusable Shuttle. But the Shuttle was two years behind schedule, so that NASA had to buy more solid-fuel Castors to help with the extended schedule of Delta launches. (NASA Release 80-110; WSJ, July 11/80, 3)
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