May 10 1968

From The Space Library

Space News for this day. (2MB PDF)

MSFC contract activity: Brown Engineering Co. received $1,007,000 one-year contract renewal for support services at MSFC Space Sciences Laboratory. A. L. Mechling Inc. was awarded $556,416 one-year contract for barge towing service on the Tennessee, Missis­sippi, and Ohio rivers, Gulf of Mexico, and Atlantic intercoastal water­ways. (MSFC Releases 68-100, 68-101)

Special Assistant to President for Science and Technology, Dr. Donald F. Hornig, on receipt of first Mellon Institute Award at Carnegie-Mel­lon Univ. for "the application of science to the betterment of man­kind," discussed "A Crisis for Science." After two decades of progress, "Congress and the public ask whether we can afford it after all. We now find ourselves pulling back from the exploration of space, slowing down on the development of universities, and even holding back on health research." Scientific community, however, had "done much to alienate itself from the society which supports it." (Text; Science, 7/19/68, 248)

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