Jul 28 1987
From The Space Library
NASA selected seven new Centers for the Commercial Development of Space (CCDS). The Centers would conduct research leading to the development of new technologies that could be exploited commercially in space. The combed industry and university centers selected were the University of Tennessee Space Institute-Center for Advanced Space Propulsion, Tullahoma, Tennessee; Auburn University-Center for the Commercial Development of Space Power, Auburn, Alabama; Environmental Research Institute of Michigan-Center for the Commercial Development of Autonomous and Man-Controlled Robotic Sensing System in Space, Ann Arbor, Michigan; Pennsylvania State University-Center for Secretion Research, University Park, Pennsylvania; University of Colorado-Center for Bioserve Space Technologies, Boulder, Colorado; Case Western Reserve University-Center on Materials for Space Structures, Cleveland, Ohio; and Texas A&M Research Foundation-Center for Commercial Development of Space Power, College Station, Texas. (NASA Release 87-115)
NASA announced an international joint effort to investigate ozone depletion over the Antarctic. NASA was to be joined in this effort by other Federal science agencies; the Chemical Manufacturers Association; scientists from Harvard University, the University of Denver, and the University of Washington; and the governments of Argentina, Chile, France, Great Britain, and New Zealand. A specially equipped ER-2 plane and a modified DC-8 air-liner were to make a number of flights through the ozone hole between August 17 and September 29, 1987, to see whether man-made chemicals, nature, or both are destroying the ozone. The findings will be examined by an international panel of policy makers meeting in Montreal, Canada, in September 1987. (NY Times, July 30/87; W Post, July 29/87; W Times, July 29/87)
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