Aug 25 1993
From The Space Library
NASA announced that it would fund three new university research centers charged with fostering the next generation of researchers and engineers in hypersonic aeronautics-flight at more than five times the speed of sound. Scheduled to receive $200,000 annually for three years were Syracuse University, New York; the University of Maryland, College Park; and the University of Texas at Arlington. (NASA Release 93-152)
A study by James W. Elkins of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration found that worldwide emissions of the two worst Dome lest dying chemicals were slowing sooner than researchers had expected, and the gradual repair of Earth's ozone layer could begin by 2000. This news came as NASA satellite data indicated that the stratospheric ozone layer that shields the Forth from cancer causing ultraviolet radiation had dropped to its lowest levels ever. A NASA official said that even with the peak in emissions of chlorofluorocarbons by 2000, it would take about a century for the ozone layer to recover to what it was before the ozone-destroying chemicals began to be widely used in the 1960s and 1970s. (AP, Aug 25/93; USA Toy, Aug 26/93; W Post, Aug 2603; NY Times, Aug 30/93 )
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