May 20 1982
From The Space Library
NASA Administrator James M. Beggs established a space station task force, directed by John D. Hodge, to be responsible for developing program aspects, including mission analysis, definition of requirements, an program management. Hodge would report to Philip E. Culbertson, associate deputy administrator, and would draw on space-station activities at each program office and field center. (NASA anno, May 20/82)
JPL said that it had joined Australia's commonwealth scientific and industrial organization in a first-time operation of five radiotelescopes in Australia and a sixth in South Africa as a single instrument "half a world wide" for observing astronomical radio sources. The Very Long Baseline Interferometry (VLBI) project could point telescopes located great distances apart at the same object, achieving angular resolution equivalent to a single radiotelescope several thousand miles in diameter. The two-week program observed about 30 quasars and galaxies. (JPL Release 993; NASA Release 82 -99)
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