Jan 17 1974
From The Space Library
A NASA plan for energy conservation and management, effective immediately, was outlined in a memo from Dr. George M. Low, NASA Deputy Administrator, to heads of all program and staff offices and Center Directors. NASA expected to exceed by a wide margin the nation-wide goal of a 5% reduction in energy consumption for the following 12-mo period as established in a 29 June 1973 Presidential Memorandum. Management actions included scheduling all energy resources, using fewer cars and aircraft, encouraging employee carpools, and examining alternative power sources in large energy consumers such as wind tunnels. NASA would also play a key role in the research, development, and technological application for the longer term solution of energy requirements and efficiencies. A Special Task Force on Energy Conservation, activated 10 Dec. 1973, would review and recommend policies and guidelines on energy conservation, consider NASA'S response to external energy directives, develop suggestions for conserving energy, and review NASA'S progress in conservation. (Text)
Johnson Space Center had issued requests to 11 interested aerospace companies to submit contract proposals for computing and data processing for space program software systems, JSC announced. Primary objective of the contract would be to define, design, .develop, and maintain software systems (for space shuttle, earth resources, and other science pro-grams) that had maximum flexibility for supporting a wide variety of missions and future requirements. The cost-plus-award-fee contract would run from 1 July 1974 through 31 Dec. 1979. (JSC Release 74-30)
A $70-million to $100-million cutback in development of the complex $4.4-billion surface-to-air (SAM-A) air defense missile system had been ordered by Dr. James R. Schlesinger, Secretary of Defense, the Washing-ton Post reported. The cutback had been ordered to speed efforts to develop a lower cost, highly mobile SAM missile in addition to the production of an already developed foreign-designed missile effective against low-flying aircraft over a battlefield. (Getler, W Post, 17 Jan 74, A3)
President Nixon issued Executive Order 11760 designating the European Space Research Organization (ESRO) a public international organization entitled to privileges, exemptions, and immunities provided for by the International Organizations Immunities Act. (PD, 21 Jan 74, 40)
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