+ 1970 News Releases (7.6 Mb PDF file) - NASA

_ _TIONAL AERONAUTICS AND SPACE ADMINISTRATION
R1FT,Hou,,tor,
Ch'"dNEDSPACENTERili ,,
-roxas
483-5111 June 17, 1970
MSC 70-68
HOUSTON, TEXAS--The National Aeronautics and Space Administration
has awarded a $100 thousand fixed-fee contract to the Grumman Aircraft
Engineering Corporation_ Bethpage_ New York to study station operating
techniques during a space station mission.
Purpose of the study, according to the work statement_ is to
"define crew command structure necessary to insure . . . successful
operations in pursuit of defined mission objectives."
Included in the study will be a definition of crew duties, training
requirements_ duty and rotation cycles_ and the kind_ number and type of
crew member that will comprise the station complement.
The contract will be administered by the Advance Missions Program
Office at the Manned Spacecraft Center, Houston_ Texas.
It is to be completed in February 1971.
#//#