Jun 8 1977
From The Space Library
NASA announced it had published a book, Space Settlements. A Design Study (NASA SP-413), describing construction and operation of permanent settlements in space where up to "10,000 people work, raise families, and live out their lives." The 185p volume contained results of a 10-wk study in 1973 sponsored by NASA and the Am. Soc. of Engineering Education at ARC and Stanford Univ. Chapter topics included physical properties of space, human needs in space, habitat design, space manufacturing, agriculture, and settlement locations. Concluding that permanent communities could be built and inhabited away from earth, the report said the obstacles to further expansion of human frontiers were "principally philosophical, political, and social rather than technical." (NASA Release 77-118)
The Wall St Journal reported that the government of France had announced plans for a major overhaul of its "financially troubled aerospace industry," that would include partial nationalization of Avions Marcel Dassault-Breguet, maker of the Mirage jet fighter. A sharp drop in orders for civilian and military aircraft had forced companies to dismiss workers and cut down operations; the government hoped to introduce new products, step up sales, and increase cooperation with other - European aircraft firms. (WSJ, June 9/77, 13)
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