Feb 21 1969
From The Space Library
Space News for this day. (1MB PDF)
Apollo 8 Astronaut Frank Borman and family returned from European goodwill tour made on behalf of President Nixon. At Andrews AFB, Md., Borman told press on arrival that Europeans found it hard to believe U.S. "could spend all that money on its space program and still make public everything we learned." He said reception had been uniformly friendly, "but they would hesitate to ask us questions, because they assumed . . . information about the Apollo 8 flight must be classified." Borman and family reported at Capitol to Vice President Spiro T. Agnew, Chairman of NASC. Borman told press conference he had found "extreme identification of people in all walks of life in Europe with our flight. They were very well informed about it and looked on us as representatives of Earth. I hope that feeling of comradeship can continue." (AP, W Post, 2/22/69, A2)
ComSatCorp reported $6.841 million 1968 net income (68 cents per share), up from 1967 net income of $4.638 million (46 cents per share). Improvement had resulted primarily from net operating income of $988,000, which contrasted with 1967 net operating loss of $642,000. (ComSatCorp Release 69-10)
President Nixon approved "Policy on Expanded Use of Federal Research Facilities by University Investigators" which directed Federal agencies to make equipment in Federal laboratories more readily available to qualified university scientists. He directed Dr. Lee A. DuBridge to monitor execution of policy with help of Federal Council for Science and Technology, which had recommended adoption. (PD, 3/3/69, 304)
FAA announced award of $35,426,283 contract to UNIVAC Federal Systems Div. of Sperry Rand Corp. for automated radar tracking systems (ARTS III) to be installed at more than 60 major U.S. airports. (FAA Release 69-22)
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