Jun 23 1973
From The Space Library
NASA held a Skylab 2 crew medical status briefing at Johnson Space Center. Dr. William R. Hawkins, JSC Deputy Director of Life Sciences for Medical Operations, said that the condition of Astronauts Charles Conrad, Jr., Dr. Joseph P. Kerwin, and Paul J. Weitz had improved over their June 22 splashdown condition. Conrad was in excellent shape, Weitz had no residual effects from the vestibular disturbances of the previous day, and Kerwin was "a thousand percent better" from the cardiovascular standpoint but still had some residual vestibular effects. (Transcript)
Newspaper editorials commented on the successful conclusion of Skylab 2 the day after splashdown. Baltimore Sun: "The Skylab experience, it is said, shows once again the value of man over computer, or rather of man-plus-computer over computer alone, in the exploration of space; and that may be one of its lessons. The larger lesson is that human curiosity and human intelligence are still operating in regions of concern beyond the day-by-day, and will keep on so operating." (B Sun, 6/23/73)
New York Daily News: "The venture proved . . . that man is needed in space to repair and regulate equipment when something goes wrong. But for the skill, coolness and courage of astronauts Conrad, Kerwin and Weitz, the entire Skylab project would have wound up as an expensive washout." (NY News, 6/23/73)
Secretary of Transportation Claude S. Brinegar and Soviet Minister of Civil Aviation Boris P. Bugayev signed a protocol in Washington, D.C., to expand air service between the U.S. and the U.S.S.R. Pan American World Airways, Inc., and the Soviet airline Aeroflot would have accelerated operating rights from and to New York, Washington, D.C., Moscow, and Leningrad, with optional intermediate points in Europe. (PD, 7/2/73, 831-2)
The National Academy of Sciences-National Research Council's Committee on Atmospheric Sciences published Weather and Climate Modification: Problems and Progress. The report called for a civilian program to promote understanding of the techniques and effects of man-induced changes in weather and climate, to bring to fruition technology to mitigate severe weather hazards to man and agriculture, and to stimulate earnest consideration of public-policy issues inherent in weather modification. A 1980 target date was set for development of determinative information on trends of climate changes inadvertently induced by man. (NAS-NRC-NAE News Report, 8-9/73, 4-5)
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