Oct 30 1992
From The Space Library
NASA and the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) signed an agreement to broaden cooperation between the two agencies. The agreement addresses environmental research, pollution monitoring, and other activities where the research capabilities of NASA can support EPA's mission to protect the environment. (NASA Release 92-192)
The Inter-Agency Consultative Group for Space Science announced in Washington, DC, that scientists from the United States, Japan, Russia, and Europe were mounting a coordinated, multi-mission effort in solar-terrestrial science during the next four years. The effort began with the launch of Japan's Geotail satellite in July 1992 and was to continue with the 1993 launch of NASA's WIND spacecraft and missions from Russia in 1993 and Europe in 1995. NASA's Interplanetary Monitoring Platform and Japan's AKEBONO spacecraft were to provide important data as well. (NASA Release 92-193)
The Pontifical Academy of Sciences of the Roman Catholic Church admitted in Rome that clerical judges erred in 1633 when they condemned the Italian mathematician and astronomer Galileo Galilei for propagating the notion that the Earth revolves around the Sun. (P Inq, Nov 1/92)
NASA astronomers at Kitt Peak National Observatory announced that they had observed what they believed to be a galaxy in the process of forming. They estimated that the galaxy is more than 10 billion light years distant. (W Times, Nov 1/92; NY Times, Nov 3/92; AP, Nov 11/92)
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