Dec 10 1992
From The Space Library
Britain, Germany, Italy, and Spain agreed today to produce a less expensive version of Europe's most ambitious defense-industry project, the European Fighter Aircraft. Defense ministers from the four countries approved plans for a new fighter that was to cost 30 percent less than the original plane, projected at $38 billion. Flight tests were expected to begin next year, with the new plane in service in 2000. (NY Times, Dec 11/92)
NASA scientists at the American Geophysical Union's fall meeting in San Francisco said that a NASA satellite had provided overwhelming evidence that industrial pollutants were responsible for the hole in Earth's protective ozone layer above Antarctica. The Upper Atmosphere Research Satellite, launched in 1991, also had produced evidence that the Antarctic ozone hole may act as a "sink," sucking in and destroying ozone from much of the Southern Hemisphere. (AP, Dec 10/92)
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31
