Sep 2 1977
From The Space Library
Space News for this day. (1MB PDF)
Ames Research Center announced that NASA had chosen 29 experimenters for the atmosphere probe portion of the Jupiter mission [see Aug. 29]. The probe would carry 6 experiments into Jupiter's atmosphere; 5 of the experimenters would be interdisciplinary scientists, and 24 would be assigned to the 6 experiments: helium interferometer, Dr. Ulf von Zahn, Federal Republic of Germany, principal investigator; mass spectrometer, Dr. H.B. Niemann, Goddard Space Flight Center; atmospheric structure, Dr. Alvin Sieff, ARC; nephelometer, Dr. Boris Ragent, ARC; net-flux radiometer, Dr. R.W. Boese, ARC; sferics receiver, Dr. L.J. Lanzerotti, Bell Laboratories.
The probe would separate from the orbiter about 55 days away from the planet, continuing on a separate flight path for about 30min of highspeed descent while relaying information to earth through the orbiter. After the entry probe concluded its work, the orbiter would fly close to Jupiter's moon Ganymede and near the large moons Io, Europa, and Callisto.
ARC's Dr. Lawrence Colin would be project scientist for the Jupiter probe; JPL would manage the Jupiter orbiter/probe project. (ARC Release 77-40)
ESA announced selection of 53 candidates from 12 European countries for the single ESA opening on the first Spacelab mission scheduled for late 1980. By the end of 1977, ESA would pick 6 from the 49 candidates chosen by their respective countries and the 4 from ESA's staff, to undergo further tests and evaluation by NASA between Jan. and April 1978. By mid-1978, 3 candidates would be appointed as European experiment specialists; several months before the mission, one would be the first West European scheduled to travel and work in earth orbit, the other two serving as backup. (ESA release Sept 2/77)
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