Feb 21 1978
From The Space Library
NASA announced results of a demonstration of curriculum-sharing planned by LaRC using television through the Communications Technology Satellite Cts at North Carolina A&T State Univ., Greensboro, N.C. This was the first time a predominantly black college had participated in such an experiment. NASA's portable earth terminal (PET), a ground-based communications system contained in a trailer, had transmitted 2 days of telecasts originating at North Carolina A&T to Cts 22 500 mi up, which relayed the programs to Jackson State Univ. in Miss.; Bell-Northern Research Ltd., Ontario, Canada; and Stanford Univ. and Rockwell International in Calif. Participants in each location could see and communicate with each other. The program, funded under NASA contract to demonstrate the use of satellites in sharing curriculum information, research techniques, and results, included a question-and-answer session with Frederick Gregory, black Shuttle astronaut recently selected by NASA. ARC had made available almost 7 hr of satellite time for the project. (LaRC Release 78-9; NASA photo L-78-1209; Langley Researcher, Feb 24/78, 1)
The number of airports, heliports, and other landing facilities available to civil aircraft in the U.S. and its possessions had increased in 1977 to 14 117, a net gain of 347 from the previous year, the Department of Transportation reported. Figures included civilian landing facilities and military facilities that permitted civil-aircraft operations. Privately owned landing facilities accounted for more than 300 of the increased number, from 9103 in 1976 to 9409 in 1977. The 1977 year-end total included 11 713 airports, 1850 heliports, 513 seaplane bases, and 41 short takeoff-and-landing (STOL) airports or runways, as well as 48 facilities in U.S. possessions. Landing facilities abandoned in 1977 numbered 294. Of the total, 747 were served by air carriers holding certificates of public convenience and necessity issued by the Civil Aeronautics Board. (FAA Release 12-78)
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