Oct 18 1977
From The Space Library
NASA announced it had reached an agreement with the Navajo Tribal Council in Ariz. for a 2-yr project to use Landsat data for an automated resource inventory of the 16-million-acre reservation in the southwest U.S.
The tribe had asked NASA whether satellite and aerial remote sensing could help solve inventory and multiple-use management problems including range rehabilitation, timber, agriculture, harvest prediction, and wildlife counts. Phase one of the project would demonstrate how Landsat data could apply to specific tribal needs and changes in resources; phase two would include training of tribal personnel and setting up an operational system at Navajo headquarters. The Navajo would assist other tribes to realize the benefits of satellite information systems. (NASA Release 77-223)
DFRC announced that the final free flight of the Shuttle orbiter, scheduled for Oct. 26, would have Fred Haise and Charles Gordon Fullerton as pilots, and that Prince Charles, Britain's Prince of Wales, would attend. (DFRC Release 35-77)
The Dept. of Transportation reported it had asked for suggestions on solving the problem of ozone irritation encountered on high-altitude flights. Ozone, a colorless atmospheric gas found in increasingly higher concentration at higher altitudes, had been identified earlier in 1977 as the cause of eye, nose, and throat irritation in airline passengers and crew on high-altitude long-range flights. Higher concentrations were found closer to earth in late winter and early spring months, increasing the number of aircraft exposed.
The FAA had issued an advisory on avoiding encounters with ozone, but was now seeking a permanent solution and soliciting views of manufacturers, crew organizations, health groups, high-altitude researchers, and airline customers, to be submitted by Dec. 6. (FAA Release 100-77)
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