Oct 16 1972
From The Space Library
Establishment of Office of Supply and Equipment Management under Assistant Administrator for Administration was announced by NASA. Office was responsible for receipt, use, and disposal of all NASA personal property, in-house and contractor held. It absorbed Property and Supply Div. and related functions of offices of Facilities and Procurement. William P. Risso, Director of Resources Management in Office of Applications, had been designated Director of new office, whose top priority was to ensure optimum use, reuse, and disposition of equipment throughout NASA. (NASA Ann)
Preliminary design efforts were under way on two of three multimillion- dollar wind tunnels that had been declared essential by NASA and Dept. of Defense Aeronautics and Astronautics Coordinating Board (AACB), Aviation Week & Space Technology reported. Tunnels, to overcome serious deficiencies in U.S. aeronautical test facilities, were large vertical or short takeoff and landing (V/STOL) tunnel, High Reynolds Number Tunnel (HIRT), and Aeropropulsion System Test Facility (ASTF). NASA had been assigned responsibility for V/STOL tunnel; Air Force was responsible for HIRT and ASTF, which would be at NASA's Ames Research Center or Langley Research Center. Construction had been approved by AACB in July, and could be completed by decade's end. Announcement of ASTF design contractor was expected imminently; selection of HIRT contractor was under way. NASA was still analyzing requirements and alternate ways of meeting them, according to Chief Mark W. Kelly of ARC's Large-Scale Aerodynamics Branch. (Av Wk, 10/16/72, 42- 5)
General Telephone & Electronics Corp. announced formation of new subsidiary, GTE Satellite Corp., to provide domestic satellite communications system. System would include multipurpose satellite earth stations in Hawaii, California, Florida, Indiana, and Pennsylvania and could be operational within 24 mos after receipt of Federal Communications Commission approval. (GTE Release)
Soviet academician Dr. Leonid I. Sedov had attributed 15-mo hiatus in Soviet manned space flight to major changes being made in Soyuz spacecraft, Aviation Week & Space Technology reported. Changes to improve cosmonauts' living conditions were believed to include retrofit of miniaturized control and communications equipment for more space in command module. Dr. Sedov had said faulty hatch system had been corrected and spacecraft was ready for 30-day orbital laboratory mission. (Av Wk, 10/16/72, 11)
Aviation pioneers to be enshrined in Aviation Hall of Fame at Dayton, Ohio, Dec. 15 were listed by Aviation Week & Space Technology: L/G Claire L. Chennault of World War II Flying Tigers; Leroy ,R. Grumman, aircraft designer and manufacturer; James H. Kindelberger, aircraft executive; and Gen. Curtis E. LeMay, former Air Force Chief of Staff. (Av Wk, 10/16/72, 11)
Dr. John E. Condon, Director of Reliability and Quality Assurance and Acting Director of Safety, left NASA to enter private industry. (NASA Activities, 11/15/72, 236)
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