Mar 1 1978
From The Space Library
Marshall Space Flight Center engineers reported completion of tests simulating checkout of a solid-fuel rocket booster (SRB) using flight-type hardware interfaced with the launch-processing system (LPS) and tests run by computer. The tests would verify compatibility of SRB hardware and demonstrate use of the LPS to checkout the SRB system. Flight equipment removed from simulated SRB hardware had been relocated in equipment racks to simulate a left-hand SRB configuration; next use of the LPS would be to checkout the left-hand SRB. United Space Boosters, Inc., would perform the checkouts, then move the equipment to Kennedy Space Center for use in future SRB checkouts. (Marshall Star, Mar 1/78, 2)
NASA announced appointment of Norman Terrell as director of international affairs and Arnold Frutkin as deputy associate administrator for external relations. Terrell, who joined NASA in 1977 as chief of the International Program Policy Office where his responsibilities included U.S.-Soviet space relations and United Nations space affairs, had worked for the Nuclear Regulatory Commission and as foreign service officer in the State Department, where he received an award in 1975 for his work on the threshold test ban treaty. Frutkin, who had headed NASA's Office of International Affairs for the past 18yr, had served as deputy director of the U.S. National Committee for the International Geophysical Year. (NASA anno Mar 1/78)
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