Oct 16 1973
From The Space Library
The U.S.S.R. launched two Cosmos satellites from Plesetsk. Cosmos 600 entered orbit with a 355-km (220.6-mi) apogee, 192-km (119.3-mi) perigee, 90.0-min period, and 72.8° inclination. The satellite reentered Oct. 23, believed by Western observers to be fifth in a series of reconnaissance spacecraft monitoring the Arab-Israeli war {see Oct. 15]. Cosmos 601 entered orbit with a 1494-km (928.3-mi) apogee, 199-km (123.7-mi) perigee, 101.8-min period, and 81.9° inclination. It re-entered Aug. 15, 1974. (GSFC SSR, 10/31/73; 8/31/74; SBD, 10/18/ 73, 241-242)
Rep. Mike McCormack (D-Wash.) introduced H.R. 10952 for himself and Rep. Olin E. Teague (D-Tex.), Rep. Charles A. Mosher (R-Ohio), and Rep. Barry M. Goldwater, Jr. (R-Calif.). The bill would provide for "the early commercial demonstration of the technology of solar heating by NASA in cooperation with the National Bureau of Standards, National Science Foundation, Secretary of Housing and Urban Development, and other Federal agencies and for early development and demonstration of technology for combined solar heating and cooling." The bill was referred to the Committee on Science and Astronautics. (CR, 10/16/73, 119192)
Soviet news agency Tass reported that Soviet scientists, first in Gorky and later in other parts of the U.S.S.R., recently had picked up signals from outer space that might have been "sent by a technically developed extraterrestrial civilization." Observation of such signals was supervised in the U.S.S.R. by Soviet astrophysicist Vsevolod Troitsky and more than 30 scientists. Signals were monitored at four stations throughout the U.S.S.R., Tass said. (Reuters, B Sun, 10/17/73)
The National Science Foundation published Continued Growth Planned for Federal Civilian R&D Programs (NSF 73-314). Federal support for ci-vilian research and development had risen 9.1% per year for the past five years. The chief areas of growth were health, transportation and communication, environment, and crime prevention and control. In 1969 civilian-oriented programs had constituted nearly 25%, or $3.6 billion, of a $15.6 billion total; they were expected to form 33.3% of the 1974 $17.4 billion total. National security took up more than 50% of the R&D total each year. In 1974, its growth in R&D obligations was expected to be $478 million, making the national security share of the Federal R&D total 54.2%, higher than any other year since 1969. Space remained the second function in funding size 1969-1974, but reflected the greatest loss in priority. Space R&D obligations showed a steady an-nual decrease, and the share in the R&D total had declined correspond-ingly, from 23.9% in 1969 to 14.1% in 1974. From 1973 to 1974, total R&D obligations for space were expected to drop by $234 million, the largest decrease for any function. (Text)
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