Oct 13 1969
From The Space Library
MSC announced award of $4.1-million modification to IBM Corp. contract for design, development, implementation, maintenance, and operation of real-time computer complex (RTTC) which supported Apollo lunar landing missions. Modification definitized requirements to support Apollo lunar surface experiments package (ALSEP) and continued work under multi-inventive arrangement covering cost, performance, schedule, and equipment management. (MSC Release 69-69)
NASA and DOT award of $165,908 contract to Booz-Allen Applied Research Inc. for six-month study of total U.S. investment in aeronautical R&D since 1945 was announced by Secretary of Transportation John A. Volpe. Joint effort was to develop methods of assessing national benefits which accrued from R&D development expenditures. (DOT Release 22269)
Flaws in F-111s produced to date were detailed by L/G John W. O'Neill, Vice Commander of AFSC, and L/G George S. Boylan, Jr." Deputy Chief of Staff, Programs and Resources, USAF Hq., in testimony before Senate Committee on Appropriations. Aircraft were seriously short in engine power for nonnuclear missions. Their weight had grown without commensurate engine power increase and thus acceleration time was now four minutes. Outlay of $80 million was necessary to overhaul 450 F-1lls to correct serious flaw in wing boxes. (Testimony)
Izvestia published article by Soviet space scientist Alexander Koval, Vice President of International Astronomical Commission. It was "high time" that space knowledge was used for advancement of communications, meteorology, geodesy, and navigation. Since space exploration was not cheap, simpler and more reliable experiments must be tried before complex and expensive ones. Three practical applications of space research were industrial use of high vacuum and absolute cold, industrial use of rocketry innovations, and putting "production-technical complexes" in space. (W Post, 10/15/69, A21)
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