Sep 23 1966

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NASA Lewis Research Center had awarded General Dynamics’ Convair Div. a $15,565,331, fixed-price contract to fabricate and assemble five additional Centaur stages for future space missions. ‘‘(NASA Release 66-253)’’

S-IC-3 booster for first Saturn V flight was shipped from NASA’s Michoud Assembly Facility aboard Poseidon to MSFC for static-testing scheduled for late October. ‘‘(NASA Release 66-218)’’

Practical dividends from investment in space program were cited by MSFC Director Dr. Wernher von Braun in an address at Midwest Space Exposition, Jackson, Mich. In addition to ‘‘tangible returns” from advances in navigation, meteorological, and communications satellites, he noted uses of space technology for surveying earth’s resources and suggested ultimate benefits, as yet unpredictable, would “dwarf, those he had named. ‘‘(Text)’’

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