Apr 20 1992
From The Space Library
It was reported that a NASA-led team might travel to Russia to explore areas for joint cooperation on axisymmetric scramjets. At the top of the list was the possibility of the U.S. joining in a second flight later during the year of the Russian scramjet that already had achieved about three seconds of supersonic combustion. (Av Wk, Apr 20/92)
Explorers who uncovered the lost Arabian city of Ubar by using ancient maps and photographs from space have also found a bigger site. The second site, at the base of Oman's Qara Mountains about 20 miles northeast of the Indian Ocean port of Salalah, was called Saffara Metropolis on the map of Roman historian Claudius Ptolemy, drawn around A.D. 100, said Juris Zarins. Zarins said the find indicates an Arabian Peninsula network of frankincense trade existed more than three millenniums before scholars previously believed. (AP, Apr 20/92; P Inq, Apr 21/92)
NASA awarded research grants to three universities to develop teacher training courses that would enable middle school teachers to incorporate aerospace topics and concepts into their classrooms and to create new and imaginative practices in learning. The Teacher Training Pre-Service Program is a two-year program. The following schools were selected from responses to a solicitation of proposals: Fayetteville State University, Eastern Michigan University, and the University of Alabama. Each was to receive a $83,000 grant and were expected to provide matching, non-Federal funds. (NASA Release 92-50)
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