Dec 27 1977
From The Space Library
NASA announced it had awarded RCA Astro-Electronics Division of Princeton, N.J., a $10.5 million fixed-price contract for a closed-circuit television system to support the Space Shuttle program. The contract, running from Jan. 1978 through June 1982, would cover design, development, production, qualification, and delivery of CCTV systems for training, certification, and flight. It would include hardware for the first orbital test vehicle design, with options for TV equipment on additional orbiters and for Canada-built remote manipulator systems. Cameras and monitors would fly in the crew compartment and the payload bay, and on the arm of the remote manipulator. JSC would provide technical direction. (NASA Release 77-259)
FBIS reported that "the world's northernmost New Year's tree" had been lighted 500km from the geographical North Pole, carried there by members of the USSR's high-latitude North 29 air expedition with "New Year gifts and mail" for the drifting station North Pole 23. Tass said the arctic "Fathers Frost" then visited an icebound island, base of the North Pole 22 scientific station, near the Canadian Arctic archipelago in the part of the Arctic Ocean most remote from the Soviet Union. (FBIS, Tass in English, Dec 27/77)
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