Jul 3 1972
From The Space Library
Dr. James C. Fletcher, NASA Administrator, believed U.S.S.R. was working toward year-long manned space mission in earth-orbit, Aviation Week & Space Technology article reported. Opinion was based largely on "intuition," Dr. Fletcher had said, but long-duration flight would be necessary before either U.S. or U.S.S.R. could attempt manned planetary mission. "I don't know what the optimum flight time would be before we could be sure man could survive extremely long missions." (Strickland, Av Wk, 7/3/72, 21)
Nike-Apache sounding rocket launched by NASA from Arenosillo, Spain, carried Spanish and Goddard Space Flight Center experiments to 122-km (75.7-mi) altitude to study ion composition in D- and E-regions of ionosphere. Rocket and instruments performed satisfactorily and good data were obtained. Launch was fifth of six launches to study ionosphere under July 30, 1970, Memorandum of Agreement between NASA and Comision Nacional de Investigation del Espacio (CONIE). (NASA Rpt SRL)
Manned Spacecraft Center announced appointment of Lynwood C. Dunseith as Deputy Director of Flight Operations. Dunseith had joined NASA in 1959 as member of Space Task Group at Langley Research Center and had been Assistant Director for Computation and Flight Support at MSC since 1970. (MSC Release 72-137)
Firm guarantees of smokeless engines and noise levels equal to Boeing 707 and McDonnell Douglas DC-8 jet transports were being written into sales contracts for Anglo-French Concorde supersonic transport, Aviation Week & Space Technology reported. Sixteen production versions of aircraft were under construction, with deliveries scheduled for thirty aircraft to customer airlines by end of 1975. (Av Wk, 7/3/72, 31)
Atomic Energy Commission announced it had issued license to Veterans Administration Hospital in Buffalo, N.Y., authorizing implant of nuclear-powered cardiac pacemakers for clinical evaluation in patients. (AEC Release P-203)
Federal Electric Corp. had received 1-yr, $19.9-million extension of contract with NASA, Aviation Week & Space Technology reported. Contract was for instrumentation and communications support services to Kennedy Space Center for Apollo and Skylab launches. Extension brought total value of contract to $113.9 million. (Av Wk, 7/3/72, 20)
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