Jul 5 1974
From The Space Library
Photographs from the Skylab missions, ERTS 1 Earth Resources Technology Satellite, and a NASA U-2 aircraft had helped end a legal confrontation between land developers and the State of Florida, Kennedy Space Center reported. Proposed heavy development of a section of the Green Swamp had threatened to endanger a subsurface rock formation, the Florida Acquifer, which provided 90% of the state's water. In conflict were the rights of owners to develop their property and the public's right to protect vital water resources. The NASA photos demonstrated the effects of land development and led to a settlement beneficial to both parties, permitting development in large tracts with carefully planned drainage and without chemical control of aquatic weeds. (KSC Release 90-74)
Three Johnson Space Center nutrition scientists-Dr. Malcolm C. Smith, Jr., Chief of the Food and Nutrition Branch; Dr. Norman D. Heidelbaugh, Chief of Food Science; and Dr. Paul C. Rambaut, Chief of Nutrition-would receive the 1974 Underwood-Prescott Memorial Award for "their contributions to the field of food science through their research in space feeding and nutrition .. for space missions to the Moon and in Skylab." The scientists were also responsible for food systems on the space shuttle and the Apollo Soyuz Test Project. The award, presented annually by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, would be made at an MIT luncheon 1 Oct. (JSC Roundup, 5 July 74, 1)
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