Sep 16 1974
From The Space Library
Two scientists had predicted that in 1982 a rare alignment of all nine planets on the same side of the sun would produce major earthquakes, Newsweek reported. In their book The Jupiter Effect, John Gribbin of the British magazine Nature and Stephen Plagemann of Goddard Space Flight Center warned that increased solar activity caused by the alignment, which occurred every 179 yrs, would alter wind directions in the upper atmosphere. The frictional effect exerted on the solid earth by atmospheric circulation would change with the winds. The consequent braking of the earth's rotation rate would trigger earthquakes in areas, like California, under geological stress. (Newsweek, 16 Sept 74, 57)
Dr. John E. Naugle, NASA Deputy Associate Administrator, would receive the National Civil Service League's Career Service Award for Sustained Excellence, NASA announced. Dr. Naugle had joined NASA in 1959 as head of the Nuclear Emulsion Section at Goddard Space Flight Center and, in 1967, had become Associate Administrator for the Office of Space Science at Headquarters. Under his leadership, scientists had mapped the entire surface of Mars, collected the first detailed information about Jupiter and its moons, and advanced the use of unmanned spacecraft as astronomical observatories. Dr. Naugle would receive the award, given to Federal officials with at least 10 yrs outstanding public service, on 9 Oct.
Dr. Carolyn Huntoon, Johnson Space Center, would receive the League's Special Achievement Award for her design of a Skylab experiment that had measured biochemical reactions to weightlessness. (NASA Release 74-252)
L/G Duward L. Crow (USAF, Ret.) became NASA Assistant Administrator for DOD and Interagency Affairs and Special Assistant to Dr. James C. Fletcher, NASA Administrator. Succeding Gen. Bruce K. Ho11c way (USAF, Ret )' who had retired from the agency, Gen. Crow had been Assistant Vice Chief of Staff for the Air Force before coming to NASA. (NASA Release 74-258)
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