May 21 1974
From The Space Library
The Senate by voice vote passed H.R. 11864, the Solar Heating and Cooling Demonstration Act of 1974, as amended by the Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs and the Committee on Labor and Public Welfare 14 May. The Senate bill would authorize $5 million to NASA and $5 million to the Department of Housing and Urban Development in FY 1975 for development of new or existing solar technology and $40 million to HUD over the next four years to carry out the demonstration. The development and demonstration were to be carried out within five years. NASA functions and funds could be transferred to the Energy Research and Development Administration if ERDA was established. (CR, 21 May 74, S8761-77)
21-23 May: Some 120 scientists and engineers from industry, Government, and universities attended the Outer Planet Probe Technology Workshop at Ames Research Center to study effective and economical methods of probing the outer planets and their moons. Participants considered spacecraft to fly past a planet while sending a probe vehicle into its atmosphere to report on composition, clouds, pressure variation, and other characteristics; the possibility of visiting such planet-sized moons as Saturn's Titan, and the cost of combined outer planet missions, such as the addition of an atmosphere probe to a Uranus flyby, the use of a similar design for a Saturn atmosphere probe, and the combination of a Jupiter orbiter and probe mission. (ARC Release 72-21; ARC Astro-gram, 23 May 74; ARC, Proceedings, Aug. 74)
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