Jan 20 1971
From The Space Library
U.S.S.R. launched Meteor 7 meteorological satellite from Plesetsk into orbit with 655-km (407.0-mi) apogee, 629-km (390.8- mi ) perigee, 97.5-min period, and 81.2° inclination. (GSFC SSR, 1/31/71; SBD, 1/26/71, 96)
President Nixon announced intention to nominate James H. Wakelin, Jr., as Assistant Secretary of Commerce for Science and Technology succeeding Myron Tribus, who had resigned in November. Nomination was submitted to Senate Jan. 25. (PD, 1./25/71, 84; 2/1/71, 141)
U.S. Geological Survey published The National Atlas of the United States of America, first official national atlas produced in U.S. Preface noted that revised editions might be "greatly expedited" by "repetitive cover-age at short time-lapse intervals, possibly from orbiting satellite systems." Systems might "expedite the production of more up-to-date and less costly regional and state as well as national atlases or even make it possible to obtain directly from storage data banks and electronic computers the type of information now gained in part from maps and atlases." (DOI PIO; Text)
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