Sep 5 1974
From The Space Library
The European Space Research Organization announced selection of Communications Satellite Corp. as its U.S. partner in the Aeronautical Satellite (Aerosat) program [see 9 May]. Aerosat was to deploy two satellites over the Atlantic Ocean for communications between aircraft in transatlantic flight and the ground. (ESRO Release, 5 Sept 74)
Maj. Gen. Vladimir A. Shatalov, U.S.S.R. chief of cosmonaut training, stated that experiments conducted during the Salyut 3 (launched 25 June), Soyuz 14 (3 July), and Soyuz 15 (26 Aug.) flights had no bearing on the Apollo Soyuz Test Project's scheduled July 1975 flight. In a Tass interview before leaving Moscow for Johnson Space Center for joint training of ASTP crews, Shatalov announced that the U.S.S.R. would launch a manned spacecraft a few months before the Apollo-Soyuz launch, to test hardware in flight. (Pravda, FBlS-Sov, 11 Sept 74, U1-2)
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