Aug 28 1971
From The Space Library
Oxford Univ. atmospheric physicist Dr. John Houghton told British press two-year research program at Oxford had shown "even with 500 SST aircraft flying, there would be no danger of ultraviolet radiation at ground level being increased by any significant amount." Dr. Houghton said program had been similar to research that had led Univ, of California at Berkeley scientist Dr. Harold Johnston to predict that exhaust from supersonic aircraft could have dangerous effect on stratosphere and might imperil life on earth. (London Times dispatch, NYT, 8/28/71, 41)
Apollo 14 Astronaut Alan B. Shepard, Jr., was awarded honorary Doc-tor of Science degree by Univ. of Miami in Oxford, Ohio. (NASA Activities, 9/15/71, 155)
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