Apr 25 1980
From The Space Library
NASA announced selection of 26 scientific investigations for possible inclusion on upper-atmosphere research missions in the late 1980s. Congress had not approved the program, but early solicitation of participants and experiments would allow prompt start when approved. U.S. researchers had suggested 23 of the investigations, the United Kingdom, 2, and France, 1. The chosen ideas, selected from 75 proposals, included 16 experimental and 10 theoretical investigations. U.S. investigators were from 8 universities, 6 government laboratories, and two private organizations. Cost to the United States of the initial study phase would be about $5 million over two years. (NASA Release 80-56)
The last of six science workshops sponsored by NASA's exobiology program on the origin of life was at Rockefeller University April 25. An extensive report on the series would be available before the end of 1980. A press conference with workshop cochairman Professors Philip Morrison (MIT) and Melvin Calvin (UCB) and workshop host Dr. Joshua Lederberg, president of Rockefeller University, was followed by a public symposium with lectures and presentation of findings by Lederberg. (NASA Actv Rpt, May 5/80, 2)
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