Jul 1 1970
From The Space Library
Astronaut Neil A. Armstrong was sworn in as Deputy Associate Administrator for Aeronautics, NASA DART, at Hq. ceremony attended by Dr. Thomas O. Paine, NASA Administrator, and NASA officials. (Daily Appointments Calendar)
Loss of 0.56-g (0.02-oz) fragment of 0.45-kg (1-lb) Apollo 11 lunar rock from GSFC was reported by NASA. Sample, one of several used by GSFC scientists to study effect of shock waves in lunar material, had been reported missing by GSFC scientist Dr. Nicholas M. Short. NASA was investigating. (NASA Release 70-113)
NASA announced award of $43-million cost-plus-award-fee contract to General Electric Co. for development of Nimbus E and F spacecraft, including responsibility as prime contractor for associated systems, integration, and testing. Nimbus E and F would be similar in structural design to previous Nimbus spacecraft and would each carry 10 experiments, with launch scheduled for 1972 and 1973. (NASA Release 70-111)
MSC announced NASA contract awards: Grumman Aerospace Corp. received $3 248 000 supplemental agreement for changes in Apollo LM contract. Agreement formally incorporated 18 changes previously authorized by NASA for modification of vehicle readiness review procedures, vibrational testing, rendezvous radar, quality assurance and reliability procedures, and descent engine updating. Agreement brought total estimated value of contract to $1673 1.19 200. Federal Electric Corp. received 10-mo, $3.29-million, cost-plus-award-fee contract extension for support services at MSC Extension brought total value of contract to $7.394 million since June 1, 1969. (MSC Releases 70-7.5, 70-76)
MSFC announced N.R Rocketdyne Div. had received $22 841 941 contract for Saturn engine support work between July 1, 1970, and June 30, 1971. (MSFC Release 70-134)
Senate passed and returned to House H.R. 16595, $550-million FY 1971 NSF authorization bill. (CR, 7/1/70, S10389-93)
ComSatCorp announced Bartlett earth station for comsats at Talkeetna, Alaska, bad been placed in commercial operation, with 80 circuits for telephone and record service between Alaska and lower 48 states. Service would also be available between Alaska and Hawaii. Circuits to Japan were expected to be established later in year. (ComSatCorp Release 70-38)
Blue Ribbon Defense Panel, with Gilbert W. Fitzhugh as Chairman, submitted to President Nixon Report to the President and the Secretary of Defense on the Department of Defense. Report offered 113 recommendations, including top-to-bottom DOD reorganization, removing Joint Chiefs of Staff from involvement with day-to-day problems of war, streamlining military staffs, reorganizing all U.S. combat forces under three main operating commands, and abandoning contracting policies that led to cost overruns and weapons that didn't work. Panel had been appointed by President and Secretary of Defense in 1969 to study DOD problems. (Text)
Nomination of Dr. Glenn T. Seaborg, AEC Chairman, to serve additional five-year term as member of AEC was submitted to Senate. President Nixon asked that Dr. Seaborg continue as AEC Chairman. (PD, 6/6/70, 871; AEC PIO)
Merger of USAF Office of Aerospace Research and AFSC placed responsibility for all USAF R&D in AFSC. OAR field installations were kept intact but OAR Hq. in Arlington, Va., was absorbed into AFSC Hq. at Andrews AFB, Md. (AFSC Release 209.70)
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