Feb 17 1973
From The Space Library
The NASA-U.S.S.R. joint mission to measure ice, surface, and atmospheric conditions in the Bering Sea began, following arrival at the experiment site of the U.S. Coast Guard ship Staten Island, NASA instrumented Convair 990 Galileo aircraft, and Soviet weather ship Priboy and 11-18 aircraft. (FBIS-Sov, 3/6/73, L1)
President Nixon signed S.J.R. 37 into Public Law 93-8, redesignating the Manned Spacecraft Center the Lyndon B. Johnson Space Center in honor of the late President, who died Jan. 22. The President said: "Few men in our time have better understood the value of space exploration than Lyndon Johnson." As senator, Johnson had written, introduced, and helped to enact legislation which created NASA. He had called NASA the "proudest legislative achievement" of his congressional career. As Vice President and Chairman of the National Aeronautics and Space Council, he had served in the "early years of exploration when the groundwork was laid, and the determination made to put a man on the moon." As President, Johnson had overseen the first Apollo flights, "in a way that led people beyond the adventure and the pride to the deeper meaning and the deeper benefits of space exploration." President Johnson "by his vision and his work and his support" had drawn America up closer to the stars "and before he died he saw us reach the moon-the first great plateau along the way.” (PD, 2/26/73, 160)
The U.S.S.R. had fired nine intercontinental ballistic missiles within two weeks over its Asian territory north of the People's Republic of China, the New York Times reported. Nixon Administration officials had said this suggested a step-up in Soviet training of crews for missiles with potential targets in China. (Beecher, NYT, 2/17/73, 4)
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