October 1968
From The Space Library
Listen to NASA Special Report #48
Soviet Science in the News, Electro-Optical Systems, Inc., publication, said review of Soviet technical press indicated U.S.S.R. would attempt to orbit manned space station within the year and that it possessed "well-devised and thoroughly realizable designs. First "rooms" of station would comprise Cosmos or Proton booster joined with Soyuz spacecraft. Additional rooms would combine solid and inflatable elements like polyethylene. Tests of water recovery systems in Pacific indicated broadening of Soviet techniques. Six vessels had been completed for ocean recoveries of spacecraft. Conclusion of Soviet scientists that weightlessness had adverse effect on human skeletal composition seemed to indicate space station would use artificial gravity. `Rotation of space station of from 40 to. 60 meters in diameter would generate sufficient artificial gravity to allow large number of scientists to work in space." (SSN, 10/68, 1; Aero Daily, 10/16/68)
Dr. Robert C. Seamans, Jr., former NASA Associate Administrator (1960-67) and now MIT professor and consultant to the NASA Administrator, was nominated as AIAA President for 1969. (A&A, 10/68, 106)
“Antarctica: Icy Testing Ground for Space” article appears in National Geographic Magazine
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