Nov 26 1974
From The Space Library
Deferral of $72 million in NASA FY 1975 R&D funding was proposed by President Ford in a message to Congress. Aeronautical re-search and space support activities would be deferred by $36 million, affecting advanced systems for space exploration and aeronautics, analysis of data in the space science program, and maintenance and upgrading of equipment for the tracking and data-acquisition program. In manned space flight, $20 million in ASTP funds would be deferred. And in space science and applications, deferral of $16 million in no-year (not designated for a specific year) funds would delay the rate of build-up of Pioneer-Venus, SEASAT-A, Nimbus-G, Tiros-N, and the Heat Capacity Mapping Mission. These deferrals were parts of a $4.6-billion budget outlay reduction asked by the President. (PD, 2 Dec 74, 1500-1; CR, 26 Nov 74, S20096-7; Federal Register, 5 Dec 74,42519-667)
NASA and the National Science Foundation announced the award of two contracts of about $500 000 each to General Electric Co. Space Div. and Kaman Aerospace Corp. for preliminary design of very large wind systems for generating electricity. Windmills from 100 to 3000 kw would be examined by each company in a project managed by Lewis Research Center for NSF as part of the program for Research Applied to National Needs (RANN). A 100-kw system with vanes more than 37 m in dia, already under design and construction, Would be erected at LeRC's Plum Brook test area. (LeRC Release 74-73)
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