Jan 15 1999
From The Space Library
At a Boeing Company awards ceremony, NASA Administrator Daniel S. Goldin and U. S. Representative Dana Rohrabacher (R-CA) recognized "members of the Delta launch team who were instrumental in sending NASA spacecraft to Mars," awarding Jay L. Witzling, Vice President of Delta Programs, with NASA's Public Service Medal. Other critical leaders in the program also received awards for their dedication and participation. In his remarks, Goldin commented on the characteristics that made Boeing's Delta rocket "more and more the launch vehicle of choice." Goldin explained that the Delta rocket was the least expensive launch vehicle, had the fastest turnaround, and had demonstrated the highest degree of reliability. Goldin also commented that the four launches to Mars aboard Delta rockets had "changed the face of the space program. "
NASA announced that NASA scientists and other weather researchers had "gained intriguing new information about upper-level winds that drive hurricanes and about the storms' devastating impact as they collide with mountains." The research findings were the result of a seven-week study conducted by NASA, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, and several universities during the previous summer, as part of the Third Convection and Moisture Experiment (CAMEX-3). The study's purpose was to gauge the strength of Atlantic hurricane winds and rainfall. CAMEX-3 researchers had used data collected with special laser instruments aboard NASA's DC-8 aircraft, which flew through hurricanes Bonnie, Danielle, Earl, and Georges; data collected from NASA's ER-2 high-altitude aircraft, which flew above the hurricanes to collect "first-of its-kind data"; and data from the Tropical Rainfall Measuring Mission satellite. Edward J. Zipser of Texas A&M University remarked, "the multi-aircraft datasets obtained by NASA aircraft in these hurricanes are unprecedented in their comprehensiveness."
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