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NASA Will Not Penalize Two Firms Responsible For Apollo 13 Failure WASHINGTON (AP) The agency probably won't penalize the two aerospace firms that allowed inadequate pwitch.es to be placed on the Apollo 13 oxygen tank which exploded en route to the moon. The contract with North American Rockwell, the firm that received more than $1 billion for all the Apollo command and service modules, doesn't contain a penalty clause. It is a cost-plus fixed fee contract and most of it hns been paid. Apollo 13 was nearing the moon April 13 when one of its two oxygen tanks blew up, knocking out all spacecraft power. Astronauts James A.

Lovell Fred W. Haise and John L. Swi'gert limped home using propulsion and life- support systems of their lunar lander. But the $375 million mission to land on the highlands of the moon was a failure. The Apollo 13 review board blamed North American Rock- well, the Beech Aircraft and the space agency itself for "an unusual combination of mistakes, coupled with a somewhat deficient and unforgiving design." It said the under subcontract by inadequate protective switches, a loose fill tube and was inadequately tested.

"It was all parties oversight in which adl parties shared," the report said. Since the Jan. 27, 1967, launch pad fire that cost the lives of three astronauts on Apollo 1, the contractors have received a fee of 5 to 6 per cent over cost, plus an additional award fee feature amounting to one half of one per cent. That award fee remains to be paid for Apollo 13, but a determination of whether this will be withheld won't be made until next year when the fee board meets. The exact amount to be paid isn't available, but NASA spokesman Julian Scheer says it won't be more than $500,000.

North American Rockwell has six more Apollo spacecraft ready for the space agency, but the award fee won't apply to them, so there is even less provision for penalty should any fault be traceable to the manufacturer. North American had been working on an incentive contract at the time of the Apollo 1 fire, and its fees were reduced by $15 million because of that accident. Additionally, the firm spent millions of dollars for sub sequent improvements on the redesigned spacecraft. The Apollo 13 review board report was one of three going to NASA Administrator Thomas 0. Paine, who then will decide what changes must be made in the spacecraft before the next launching.

The launch date for Apollo 14 already has been set back by two months, until Dec. 3, in anticipation of changes. At the end of this week, Paine will receive reports from the Office of Manned Space Flight and from the Aerospace Safety Ad visory Panel. He is expected to ffSPAFEIS fflUIliST! testify before the Aeronautical and Space Sciences Committee next week on the findings. monetary unit in Peru the sol, worth about 2.5 cents.

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