Aug 15 1973
From The Space Library
NASA held an earth resources experiment package briefing at Johnson Space Center. Dr. Verl R. Wilmarth, EREP project scientist at JSC, said that Skylab 3 Astronauts Alan L. Bean, Dr. Owen K. Garriott, and Jack R. Lousma, launched July 28 to crew the Orbital Workshop, had completed 10 EREP passes and had exceeded four hours of data col-lection. They had photographed 125 test sites over the U.S., South America, Thailand, East Malaysia, and Australia under the conditions required by the individual primary investigators. Wilmarth said the equipment was "working great" with "essentially no problem at all with any of the camera systems. ' (Transcript)
Ames Research Center light aircraft and various ground stations were being used to document air pollution in the San Francisco Bay area under a two-year National Science Foundation project. ARC, the Bay Area Pollution Control District, and the Atomic Energy Commission's Lawrence Livermore Laboratory were collaborating in the project. ARC would make atmospheric measurements and computer studies in photo-chemisty to determine how sunlight affected pollution. The Livermore Laboratory, operated by the Univ. of California, would use weather and pollution data to verify a model under development. Radiosonde balloons launched by students at San Jose State Univ. also would gather data under an ARC grant. Another grant, with the Statewide Air Pollution Research Center at the Univ. of California at Riverside, would analyze hydrocarbons. (ARC Release 73-90)
California Lt. Gov. Edwin Reinecke and Dr. Hans M. Mark, Ames Research Center Director, had concluded an agreement under which ARC would assist the California Office of Emergency Services in developing a system for rapid evaluation of emergency situations, NASA announced. The agreement was part of an ARC pilot program to develop disaster-assessment systems for regional or Federal agencies. ARC would provide high-altitude multispectral photography, thermal infrared imagery, and radiometric surveys using earth resources research techniques to survey fire, flood, earthquake, landslide, oil spill, air pollution, or other dis-asters. (NASA Release 73-157)
Findings that solar power held vast potential to supplement energy needs were presented at Marshall Space Flight Center by university faculty fellows in an MSFC Systems Engineering Design Program. The joint MSFC-Auburn Univ. program was to provide information and experience for developing multidisciplinary systems engineering design courses and programs. The fellows had made a systems approach study of the application of solar technology and research to meet the energy crisis. (MSFC Release 73-109; MSFC PAO)
Grumman Aerospace Corp. was surveying Langley and Lewis Research Centers under a $60 000 NASA contract to identify any clearly inefficient energy-use practices, NASA announced. areas of major potential energy savings would be identified and corrective action taken. (NASA Release 73-159)
President Nixon announced his intention to nominate John R. Quarles, Jr., as Deputy Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency succeeding Robert W. Fri, whose resignation he accepted. The President also designated Quarles, Acting EPA Deputy Administrator, as Acting Administrator pending the confirmation and appointment of Russell E. Train as Administrator Quarles' nomination was submitted to the Senate Sept. 5 and confirmed Sept. 14. (PD, 8/20/73, 982; 9/10/73, 1070; EPA PIO)
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