Apr 28 1973
From The Space Library
Dr. Robert C. Seamans, Jr., retiring Secretary of the Air Force, was named by the National Geographic Society to receive its Gen. Thomas D. White Space Trophy. The citation said: "Under his leaderÂship great strides were made in Air Force space programs, and new early warning and communications space systems were placed in opÂeration." [See April 30.] (AP, W Star & News, 4/29/73, A6)
U.S.S.R. scientists had named a newly discovered mineral "armstrongite" after the U.S. astronaut Neil A. Armstrong, first man to set foot on the moon, the Associated Press reported. The mineral, belonging to the zirconium-silicate compounds, had been found by a joint Soviet-Mongolian expedition in the Gobi Desert. A sample of the mineral had been sent to Armstrong. (AP, NYT, 4/29/73, 53)
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