Jul 26 1967
From The Space Library
NASA awarded Boeing Co. a $2.275-million cost-plus-fixed-fee contract for procurement of long-lead-time materials for two additional Saturn V launch vehicles. Contract, which would expire Jan. 1, 1968, was first Saturn V procurement in support of Apollo Applications (AA) program. (NASA Release 67-200)
NASA selected Martin Marietta Corp. to negotiate 27-mo, $25million, cost-plus-incentive-award-fee contract for payload integration of experiments and experiment support equipment on Apollo Applications (AA) spacecraft. Tasks would be performed at NASA's three manned spaceflight centers: (1) MSFC work would involve the orbital workshop and Apollo Telescope Mount (ATM); (2) MSC work, the meteorological and earth resources payloads; and (3) KSC work, the test integration planning and support for launch operations. Selection of contractor followed competitive definition phase in which Martin Marietta Corp. and Lockheed Missiles and Space Co. studied AA payload integration under parallel, $2-million, fixed-price contracts. (NASA Release 67-199)
NASA Administrator James E. Webb testified on NASA FY 1968 authorization bill before Senate Committee on Appropriations' Subcommittee on Independent Offices. Asked by Sen. Spessard Holland (D-ma.) to make a choice between a substantial cut in funding for the Apollo Applications (AA) program and the Voyager program, Webb replied that both were vital to the U.S. space effort. "The Apollo application is a small investment to expend on something you have already spent $15 billion to get and it seems to me that this is important. "On the other hand, the United States, if it retires from the exploration of the planetary field, in my view . . . [will face] the most serious consequences because the Russians are going to be moving out there and our knowledge of the forces that exist in the Solar System can affect the Earth and can be used for many purposes to serve mankind or for military power. . . ." Criticized by Sen. Holland for refusing to make a choice, Webb said he did not want "to give aid and comfort to anyone to cut out a program. I think it is essential that we do them both." (Transcript, 2382-3 20th Anniversary of USAF, established as a separate military service under 1947 Armed Forces Unification Act. (EH)
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