Aug 20 1992
From The Space Library
NASA researchers began a three-week airborne study to increase understanding of microscopic plant productivity in the equatorial region of the Pacific Ocean. The principal scientific objective was to understand why microscopic plant productivity involving phytoplankton is so limited in the Pacific compared to the Atlantic Ocean. (NASA Release 92-135)
An experimental tilt-rotor forerunner of the controversial V-22 Osprey air-craft crashed during a routine training flight at Arlington, Texas, slightly injuring the pilot and co-pilot. Although the XV-15 looks much like the V-22 Osprey, a spokesman said the plane's development was not part of the V-22 program. The XV-15 resulted from cooperation between Bell Helicopter, NASA, and the Defense Advanced Research Project Agency. (P Inq, Aug 21/92; WSJ, Aug 21/92; USA Today, Aug 21/92; AP, Aug 20/82; UPI, Aug 20/92)
Jeremiah Pearson, NASA's Associate Administrator for space flight, said NASA planners were studying ways to cut up to 25 percent from the Space Shuttle budget by 1997, a much more extensive reduction than previously projected. The 25 percent cut would produce savings of about $3 billion, Pearson said. Managers at the Kennedy Space Center in Florida were already working to cut 10 percent from the Shuttle's 1994 budget. (Space News, Aug 24-30/92)
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