Jul 24 1973
From The Space Library
NASA might delay the Skylab 4 launch from October to November so that its crew could observe Comet Kohoutek swing around the sun, Thomas O'Toole in the Washington Post quoted NASA officials as indicating. No firm decision had been made, but most officials favored a delay. NASA Associate Administrator for Manned Space Flight Dale D. Myers had said, "Comets this size come this close to us once in a century. It really looks like the kind of thing you can't pass up." (W Post, 7/24/73, Al2)
The maiden glide flight of NASA'S X-24B lifting body was postponed for the second time [see July 19] because of a malfunction in the control gyros. (NASA prog off)
The 1972-73 edition of Jane's Fighting Ships was published in London. In the foreword, editor Capt. John Moore said the Soviet navy was "a pre-eminent force with its own air power and with a greater range of submarines than any other. Above all, it has a far greater proportion of ships less than 10 years old than any other major fleet." (AP, P Inq, 7/26/73, 11)
July 24-Aug. 8: A summer school on manned space flight-sponsored at Nottingham Univ., England, by the European Space Research Organization (ESRO)-was attended by 63 graduate scientists and engineers from 13 countries and by NASA representatives. Its theme, "The Implications for European Space Programmes of the Possibilities of Manned Mission," was based on use of the space shuttle Spacelab. (ESRO News-letter, 10/73, 1)
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