Apr 12 1968

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Space News for this day. (2MB PDF)

NASA would negotiate $900,000, one-year, cost-plus-fixed-fee con­tract with Chrysler Corp.'s Space Div. to study needs and configuration alternatives for an intermediate payload launch vehicle in post-1973 space operations. Payloads under consideration included long-duration manned operations in low earth orbit, unmanned satellites in synchro­nous orbit, logistic support for manned lunar exploration, and un­manned planetary and deep space probes. Contract would be managed by OMSF. (NASA Release 68-67; Sehlstedt, B Sun, 4/13/68)

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