Jan 27 1995
From The Space Library
Global warming resumed in 1994, after a two year lull caused by the mid-1991 eruption of Mount Pinatubo. Dr. James Hansen, head of NASA's Goddard Institute for Space Studies in New York, said he was more confident than ever there is a real warming that is a long-terns trend. This warming was confirmed in several ways later in the year. If the effects of global warming raise sea levels an average of a foot and a half around the world, as some scientists predict, parts of many populated deltas would become uninhabitable. (NY Times, Jan 27/95, Feb 12/95, Sep 10/95, Sep 18/95 & Sep 26/95; W Post, Apr 25/95, Oct 25/95; Fla Today, Oct 1/95; Science, Feb 3/95, Apr 21/95, Jun 9/95, Jun 16/95, Sep 22/95, Nov .3/95 & Dec 8/95)
NASA announced the crew members for the Shuttle Columbia STS-75 mission in early 1996. This flight was to be the second of the Tethered Satellite System (TSS) and also marked the third devoted to orbital investigations using the U.S. Microgravity Payload. Marine Lt. Col. Andrew M. Allen was named commander and Air Force Major Scott J. Horowitz, pilot. Joining them were: payload commander Franklin R. Chang-Diaz; Italian Space Agency TSS payload specialist Umberto Guidoni; mission specialist Jeffrey A. Hoffman, and European Space Agency mission specialists Claude Nicollier from Switzerland and Maurizio Cheli from Italy. (NASA Release 95-9; H Post, Jan 31 /95 )
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