Feb 25 1992
From The Space Library
Milton B. Ames Jr., 78, an aeronautical engineer who was Mission Director for the Pegasus satellite launches using Saturn rockets and who was a recipient of numerous NASA awards, died of heart failure at Mount Vernon Hospital, Alexandria, Virginia. (W Post, Feb 25/92)
Milan J. Krasnican, 68, a retired aerospace engineer with NASA, who was a member of the Project Mercury Space Task Group and a project engineer on the orbiting geophysical observatory spacecraft program at Goddard Space Flight Center, died at Sibley Hospital. A long-term resident of the Washington area, he lived in Bethesda. (W Post, Feb 25/92)
According to a released congressional study, a $3 billion U.S. space agency satellite program to monitor the environment would be useless without massive new computer technology. The study said that NASA would need the new technology to store and distribute the information its satellite program gathers. The Earth Observing System (EOS) was designed to take continuous measurements of ozone depletion, global warming, polar ice melt, depletion of rainforests, and other environmental developments. But the study also indicated that the data collected by EOS would require vast new ways to store information and make it available to a wide range of researchers. (Reuters, Feb 25/92; AP, Feb 25/92)
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