Dec 29 1977
From The Space Library
KSC announced that the Thunderstorm Research International Program (TRIP) combining efforts of atmospheric physicists and lightning researchers from the U.S., Europe, and Africa would continue in 1978 as they had for the past 2 summers. At the recent meeting of the American Geophysical Union in San Francisco, KSC had invited the researchers to continue their studies of electrical properties, origins, and effects of thunderstorms.
The KSC Spaceport would benefit from the studies by applying the findings in Shuttle launch and landing operations; to have many investigators in the same area studying the same storms and exchanging data would offer ,more chances of gaining new knowledge than might come from isolated studies. The researchers had funded their own programs, KSC providing meteorological instrumentation, use of the local National Weather Service office, and normal support services such as power, communications, and file processing.
KSC, hosting the program for a third consecutive yr, had unique meteorological facilities accumulated during the Apollo and Skylab programs, plus a large number of summer thunderstorms occurring normally in the area. Although KSC would not host the group after next yr, the 1979 study site for continuations of TRIP would be the Langmuir Laboratories at Socorro, N.M., for studies of mountain storms of the southwest. (KSC Release 217-77)
ARC reported that the Galileo memorial scholarship program established in 1973 by the San Francisco section of the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics and ARC would award a $750 scholarship and other prizes. The program was open to high school seniors planning a career in physical or natural sciences, engineering, or mathematics, residents of the area or children of employees or retirees at ARC or of Galileo crewmembers. The program was a memorial to the men who died April 12, 1973, in an accident involving the Galileo I (a modified Convair operated by ARC as a flying laboratory for research in aeronautics, astronautics, astronomy, and earth observation). (ARC Astrogram, Dec 29/77, 4)
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