Mar 14 1971
From The Space Library
FRC and MSC scientists and engineers would begin research in adapting Apollo hardware to "fly-by-wire" electronic control system for future aircraft, NASA announced. System substituted lightweight wires for push-rods and added redundant wire paths at different locations in aircraft, to make overall system less vulnerable to damage. Electronic system could soften bumps, sways, and lurches of aircraft in rough weather and ease pilot's load. (NASA Release 71-36)
Moscow newspaper Sotsialisticheskaya Industriya quoted unidentified "Chief Designer of Spaceships" as saying U.S.S.R. was preparing further manned orbital flight of long duration as prelude to creation of permanent space laboratory. Soyuz spacecraft had "undergone necessary modifications to insure fulfillment of a long and extensive program." Later New York Times said designer was believed to be Mikhail K. Yangel, member of Soviet Academy of Sciences. (NYT, 3/15/71)
 Mikhail Yangel |
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