Nov 23 1991
From The Space Library
At a news conference at Goddard Space Flight Center, researchers from NASA and from the Soviet Central Aerological Observatory near Moscow announced the success of the first U.S.-Soviet space effort in 16 years. The engineer's model of the first Total Ozone Mapping Spectrometer (TOMS-U.S. technology-transfer laws prohibited the launch of a state-of-the-art TOMS aboard a Soviet satellite) was launched aboard a Soviet satellite August 15, and was sending back "high-quality data," according to Soviet Deputy Director Vyacheslav Khattatov. (B Sun, Nov 23/91; NY Times, Nov 23/91)
NASA's proposed launch on Columbus Day 1992 of an extended Search for Extra-Terrestrial Intelligence (SETI) was described in some detail. SETI's seven-year duration was to have two phases, a "targeted search" directed from NASA's Ames Research Center in Mountain View, California, using the world's largest radio telescope in Arecibo, Puerto Rico, and an all-sky survey, run by the Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena over a five-year period, beginning with NASA's Deep Space Network radio observatory in Goldstone, California. (B Sun, Nov 23/91; P Inq, Nov 25/91; W Times, Nov 29/91)
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