Sep 19 1973
From The Space Library
Communications Satellite Corp. announced the award of a $65 900 000 contract to Hughes Aircraft Co. for construction of high- capacity satellites for lease to American Telephone & Telegraph Co. to provide domestic satellite communications services. Delivery of the first of four satellites was scheduled for late 1975. (ComSatCorp Release 73-48)
Rep. George E. Brown (D-Calif.) introduced H.R. 10392 to authorize NASA to develop fuel-efficient, low-polluting engines for light automobiles to "capitalize on NASA's recognized preeminence in both high technology itself and the management of advanced technology development programs." (CR, 9/19/73, H8137-8; Off Rep Brown)
The U.S. Civil Service Commission ordered the Air Force to rehire A. Ernest Fitzgerald, a financial analyst who had been fired in 1970 after he had disclosed a $2-billion cost overrun on development of the Air Force C-SA jet transport. The Air Force also was ordered to pay Fitzgerald more than $100 000 in back pay. (Ripley, NYT, 9/19/73, 1)
NASA launched an Arcas sounding rocket from Antigua, West Indies, carrying a Goddard Space Flight Center experiment to a 49.4-km (30.7-mi) altitude. The objectives were to measure ozone distribution in the upper atmosphere, monitor anomalous ultraviolet absorption, and extend the data base for a climatology of stratospheric ozone in the tropics. The sounding rocket was launched in conjunction with a Nimbus 4 weather satellite (launched April 8, 1970) overpass. The rocket and instrumentation performed satisfactorily. (NASA Rpt SRL)
September 19-21: The exhibition "Technology in the Service of Man" was opened at Lewis Research Center by Dr. James C. Fletcher, NASA Administrator. Some 1400 representatives of business, industry, labor, professions, and Government viewed exhibits that included a Skylab slide show, Saturn launch vehicle models, a Skylab Student Project exhibit, mockups of future space shuttle payloads, a lunar roving vehicle, and material on the High Energy Astronomy Observatory (HEAO). (MSFC Release 73-129; LeRC Release 73-42; Lewis News, 9/21/73, 1)
September 19-28: Five Soviet radiation specialists toured U.S. industrial process radiation facilities under the Memorandum on Cooperation in the Peaceful Uses of Atomic Energy between the Atomic Energy Com-mission and the U.S.S.R. State Committee on the Utilization of Atomic Energy. The visit reciprocated a Soviet tour by a delegation of U.S. radiation specialists in July 1972. (AEC Release R-389)
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