Jan 2 1976
From The Space Library
NASA planned 18 major satellite launchings in 1976, 16 from Cape Canaveral and 2 from the Western Test Range at Vandenberg Air Force Base. First of these, on 13 Jan., would be a U.S.-Canadian Communications Technology Satellite; second, on 15 Jan., would be the Helios satellite built by West Germany. Other NASA launches during the year would include 2 comsats for the North Atlantic Treaty Organization; 2 maritime comsats (Marisats); Palapa, a comsat for the Indonesian government; the second Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite (GOES-B); and Lageos, a laser geodynamic satellite to help alleviate earthquake hazards. (NYT, 3 Jan 76, 5)
As he assumed the presidency of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, Dr. William D. McElroy (chancellor of the Univ. of Calif. in San Diego, and former director of the National Science Foundation) said he planned to reorganize the AAAS journal Science, involve the association more deeply in government and industry activity, and quadruple the membership. Dr. McElroy, called the "leading world authority on the biochemistry of firefly light," said he hoped to stop the publication of pure research papers in Science, as more specialized scientific journals could do this more efficiently, and to promote a free flow of ideas between the universities and the industrial community by including more articles of interest to users in industry and engineering, and paying more attention to science issues in government policy. He referred to the '"unfortunate separation" between industry and university after World War 11 when science gained new nonindustrial financial support; by increasing the circulation of Science magazine, he would expand the AAAS membership, as the magazine is available only to members. (NYT, 2 Jan 76, 10)
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