Jun 14 1974
From The Space Library
Dr. James C. Fletcher, NASA Administrator, announced that NASA'S Mississippi Test Facility had been renamed the National Space Technology Laboratories (NSTL), effective immediately, and would become a permanent field installation reporting directly to NASA Hq. MTF, whose activities now included developmental testing of the main engine for the space shuttle and an earth resources laboratory, had been established in 1961 as part of Marshall Space Flight Center, to perform static tests of Saturn V launch vehicle stages used in the Apollo program. (NASA Release 74-159)
Kennedy Space Center's Earth Resources Office was studying the use of radar imagery for land use planning, water resources management, and detection of pools of water under canopies of dense vegetation, KSC announced. Three Brevard County, Fla., sites had been surveyed by a C-46 Curtis Commando aircraft equipped with a two-wavelength, multiplex, synthetic aperture, sidelooking radar. Results indicated that radar was promising for rural and urban land use applications and water resources management, but water detection experiments were less encouraging. The study was being conducted because photographic and TV sensors on spacecraft were limited to the visual or near-infrared wavelengths. They were unable to photograph in darkness or through clouds. (KSC Release 97-74)
Overall U.S. aerospace exports during the first three months of 1974 had totaled $1713 million, up from $1245 for the same period in 1973, the Aerospace Industries Association of America announced. (AIA Release 74-6)
President Nixon established the Committee on Energy. The Cabinet-level advisory body would coordinate development of energy policy within the Executive Branch. (PD,17 June 74,607-8)
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