Sep 2 1968
From The Space Library
John Lannan in Washington Evening Star called GSFC "home base" for Apollo 7 astronauts. All their communications would pass through Center. Communicating with some or all lunar spacecraft would be 14 land stations, 4 ships, and 8 aircraft around the world, manned by 4,000 persons. All circuits used would be put together from GSFC switching centers. Except for astronaut's electrocardiagram and his voice, all mission data would be channeled in digital form, which meant vast bulk of detail controlling system itself, in addition to mission data from Houston or spacecraft, could be handled rapidly by computers. (W Star, 9/2/68, 1)
AEC was developing plans for "nuplexes," giant agro-industrial complexes built around nuclear reactors and using advanced agricultural and industrial technologies, said AEC Chairman, Dr. Glenn T. Seaborg, in U.S. News & World Report. While "modest type" could be built using reactors of type under construction, eventually feasible $1-billion nuplex could sustain 100,000 farmers, laborers, and their families and feed 5 million others, while exporting fertilizer to grow food for additional 50 million people. Nuplexes would generate own electricity and pump oceans for unlimited quantities of water for irrigation and industrial uses. Seaborg saw India and Middle East as specific areas for nuplexes. (W Post, 8/26/68, A12; US News, 9/2/68, 62)
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