Nov 18 1973
From The Space Library
A Miami Herald editorial commented on the effect of the end of Skylab launches on Brevard County, "Florida's broad window on the space age." Of Skylab 4 (launched Nov. 16), there was little more to say than that "as usual the celebrated Cape [Canaveral] has another predictable success; that the space program will slow up to catch its breath, and finally that the United States is inescapably committed to space and thus to the place that all of it began. Florida has reason to be proud of its oldest point in geographical time and its youngest venture into the future." (M Her, 11/18/73)
NASA launched a Javelin sounding rocket from Natal, Brazil, carrying a Univ. of California barium cloud experiment. The rocket and instruments performed satisfactorily. (GSFC proj off)
November 18-Dec. 1: U.S. flight crews for the July 1975 U.S.-U.S.S.R. Apollo Soyuz Test Project mission visited the U.S.S.ft. for familiarization with the Soyuz spacecraft and discussions with Soviet counterparts on the flight plan. The discussions, held mostly at the Yuri A. Gagarin Center for Cosmonaut Training near Moscow, included joint crew activities and onboard documentation. Astronauts participating were Thomas P. Stafford, U.S. ASTP commander; Vance D. Brand, command module pilot; and Donald K. Slayton, docking module pilot; backup crew Alan L. Bean, Ronald E. Evans, and Jack R. Lousma; support crew Robert F. Overmyer and Karol J. Bobko; and Eugene A. Cernan, Special Assistant to the U.S. ASTP Technical Director. At a press conference following the Nov. 29 concluding meeting, Maj. Gen. Vladimir A. Shatalov, chief of cosmonaut training, said the U.S.S.R. planned further manned space flights-individual Soyuz missions and linkups of Soyuz with ,the Salyut orbital platform-before the joint U.S.- U.S.S.R. mission. Stafford told newsmen he was completely satisfied that the Soyuz would be "a great ship to fly." He said there would be two joint training sessions in 1974, in Moscow in July and at Johnson Space Center in September. (NASA Release 73-250; Smith, NYT, 11/30/73, 9)
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