Oct 9 1991
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The Christian Science Monitor commended NASA for naming the orbiting Gamma Ray Observatory the Arthur Holly Compton Gamma Ray Observatory because of the late Nobel Prize laureate's studies of the subject. Moreover, the renaming focused attention on one of NASA's "outstandingly successful missions." (CSM, Oct 9/91)
NASA announced the selection of new Regional Technology Transfer Centers to replace the Industrial Applications Centers whose contracts expire in 1191. The centers were the following: Northeast-Center for Technology Commercialization, Westborough, Massachusetts; Mid-Atlantic-University of Pittsburgh; Mid-West-Battelle Memorial Institute, Columbus, Ohio; Southeast-University of Florida, Alachua; Mid-Continent-Texas A and M University, College Station; and Far West-University of Southern California, Los Angeles. (NASA Release 91-167)
NASA announced that the Antarctic ozone levels had reached the lowest values ever observed on October 6 (110, plus or minus 6), according to preliminary data from NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, Maryland. (NASA Release 91-168; LA Times, Oct 10/91)
NASA Administrator Richard H. Truly met with senior NASA officials in Washington to discuss Deputy Administrator James R. Thompson's interim viewpoints on roles and responsibilities of NASA Centers and Headquarters offices. Thompson's final recommendations and a proposed implementation plan were to follow in early November. (NASA Release 91-169)
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