Feb 14 1978
From The Space Library
NASA announced two promotions: James Morrison to the position of European representative, and Louis Lushina to director of the information systems division, Office of Management Operations. For the past 3.5yr Morrison had managed the earth resources survey program in NASA's Office of Applications; before that, he had served for 12yr in NASA's Office of International Affairs. He had been an F-86 and F-100 pilot and served as a flight commander, operations officer, and squadron commander. As European representative, Morrison would be liaison between NASA and European space agencies; In his new position, Lushina would be responsible for managing agencywide information-systems efforts and ADP resources. He had come to NASA in 1968 from the Army Materiel Command and had served since then as deputy of financial management in the Office of the Comptroller. Previously he was deputy comptroller of the U.S. Army Communications Zone in Europe and of the U.S. Army Supply and Maintenance Command, and assistant comptroller of the U.S. Army Ordnance Corps. He held the NASA exceptional service medal and the Army's meritorious civilian service medal. (NASA Release 78-23; NASA anno Feb 14/78, Feb 15/78)
ESA reported first results from the international ultraviolet explorer launched Jan. 26. A European team working Feb. 9 at ESA's Villafranca station had located and observed Capella (a star in the Milky Way galaxy) for the first time in the complete ultraviolet spectrum. Like the sun, the strong-magnitude (bright) star appeared to be surrounded by an area called the chromosphere, in which chemico-gaseous exchanges occurred. IUE's program of scientific and technological observation would continue until the end of March. (ESA Release Feb 14/78)
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