Return-path: X-Andrew-Authenticated-as: 7997;andrew.cmu.edu;Ted Anderson Received: from holmes.andrew.cmu.edu via trymail for +dist+/afs/andrew.cmu.edu/usr1/ota/space/space.dl@andrew.cmu.edu (->+dist+/afs/andrew.cmu.edu/usr1/ota/space/space.dl) (->ota+space.digests) ID ; Thu, 27 Apr 89 03:16:46 -0400 (EDT) Message-ID: Reply-To: space+@Andrew.CMU.EDU From: space-request+@Andrew.CMU.EDU To: space+@Andrew.CMU.EDU Date: Thu, 27 Apr 89 03:16:37 -0400 (EDT) Subject: SPACE Digest V9 #396 SPACE Digest Volume 9 : Issue 396 Today's Topics: Barium Cloud Experiment (Update 2) (Forwarded) Barium Cloud Experiment Re: US citizen - ET contact legal penalties Re: NSS Hotline Update NASA Aircraft to Support Int'l. Global Ocean Study Associate Deputy Administrator Hinners to resign (Forwarded) Odom announces retirement from NASA (Forwarded) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: 25 Apr 89 23:09:16 GMT From: trident.arc.nasa.gov!yee@ames.arc.nasa.gov (Peter E. Yee) Subject: Barium Cloud Experiment (Update 2) (Forwarded) Dwayne C. Brown Headquarters, Washington, D.C. April 25, 1989 ADVISORY NASA's rocketborne scientific experiment that will create colorful artificial clouds at high altitudes above NASA's Wallops Island, Va., range has been postponed for 24 hours because of unfavorable weather conditions. The earliest launch time is approximately 9:31 p.m. EDT tomorrow, pending a 1:30 p.m. weather briefing. Almost perfect weather conditions are needed at the optical observation sites. The cloud is expected to be visible along the East Coast. ------------------------------ Date: 25 Apr 89 20:53:45 GMT From: bbn.com!koolish@bbn.com (Dick Koolish) Subject: Barium Cloud Experiment There is a recorded message about the barium cloud experiment launch at the Wallops Is Audio News Service. Phone is 804-824-2050. ------------------------------ Date: 22 Apr 89 23:39:39 GMT From: uhccux!osborne@humu.nosc.mil (Larry Osborne) Subject: Re: US citizen - ET contact legal penalties In article <335@v7fs1.UUCP>, mvp@v7fs1.UUCP (Mike Van Pelt) writes: > In article <3815@uhccux.uhcc.hawaii.edu> osborne@uhccux.uhcc.hawaii.edu (Larry Osborne) writes: > >1211.101) is headed "Applicabil > > Some of the message seems to have been cut off. > Yes, it does seem so. Your speculation that this is moon-mission inspired seems well founded. The source is given as "SOURCE 34 FR 11975, July 16, 1969, unless otherwise noted." Several times the document refers to the Lunar Receiving Laboratory at the Houston Manned Spacecraft Center. To summarize what seems to have been deleted from my previous message, the applicability is stated as "...all NASA manned and unmanned space missions which land on or come within the atmospheric envelope of a celestrial body and return to the Earth." This limitation is comforting, considering some of the other provisions. Section 1211.102 (Definitions), defines "extraterrestrially exposed" as anything that touches or comes within the atmospheric envelope of any other celestial body, or has "touched directly or been in close proximity to (or been exposed indirectly to) any person, property, animal or other form of life or matter [!] which has been extraterrestrialy exposed...". Section 1211.104 (Policy), gives NASA the right to: "Determine that a particular person, property, animal, or other form of life or matter whatever is extratrestrially exposed and quarantine such person, property, animal, or other form of life or matter whatever. The quarantine may be based only on a determination, with or without the benefit of a hearing, that there is probably cause to believe that such person, property, animal or other from of life or matter whatever is extraterrestrially exposed." It also gives NASA the authority to put quarantine stations anywhere in the US and to hire guards. Comfortingly, the last paragraph of the section says that if you're quarantined you can call your lawyer "at the earliest practicable time". Section 1211.107 says that NASA can refuse to release you even if you have a court "request, order, or demand". Frankly, every time I read a law or federal regulation I get the same reaction I do to medical journals. It's a wonder we aren't all dead or in jail. :^) Mostly I take it on faith that the government won't run hog-wild with all the authority we give them, and that my liver won't pack up just because I can't see why it keeps on working. -- osborne@uhccux.uhcc.hawaii.edu (preferred) | Larry N Osborne osborne@uhccux.bitnet | SLIS, 2550 The Mall | University of Hawaii at Manoa or via W.A.S.T.E | Honolulu, Hawaii 96822 ------------------------------ Date: 24 Apr 89 21:08:48 GMT From: unmvax!indri!polyslo!usc!orion.cf.uci.edu!uci-ics!venera.isi.edu!cew@ucbvax.Berkeley.EDU (Craig E. Ward) Subject: Re: NSS Hotline Update In article <238@umigw.MIAMI.EDU> steve@umigw.miami.edu.UUCP (steve emmerson) writes: >In article <246900022@cdp> jordankatz@cdp.UUCP writes: > >One way to provide those desirable qualities is to have a political >consensus; we don't seem to have one. Another way is to insulate the >agency from political forces. Appointing a policy committee which has >the vice president as its chair guarantees, in my opinion, the reverse. It requires political force to isolate an agency from political forces. In Washington, it usually requires either a strong congressional coalition (consensus is an illusion) or a strong president. With regards to space, we have not had a strong president with vision since Johnson. Where would we be if he had not mucked up his foreign policies? Craig -- ==================================================================== ARPA: cew@venera.isi.edu PHONE: (213)822-1511 ext. 111 USPS: USC Information Sciences Institute 4676 Admiralty Way, Suite 1100 Marina del Rey, CA 90292 Slogan: "nemo me impune lacessit" ==================================================================== ------------------------------ Date: 24 Apr 89 17:54:48 GMT From: ccnysci!patth@nyu.edu (Patt Haring) Subject: NASA Aircraft to Support Int'l. Global Ocean Study Ported to UseNET from UNITEX Network 201-795-0733 via Rutgers FidoGATEway *NASA AIRCRAFT TO SUPPORT INTERNATIONAL GLOBAL OCEAN STUDY Paula Cleggett-Haleim Headquarters, Washington, D.C. April 19, 1989 (Phone: 202/453-1548) Joyce B. Milliner Goddard/Wallops Flight Facility, Wallops Island, Va. (Phone: 804/824-1579) NASA's highly instrumented, remote sensing aircraft will participate in an international oceanographic experiment, called the Global Ocean Flux Study (GOFS), to determine the capacity of the world's oceans to assimilate and store excess carbon dioxide (CO2) from Earth's atmosphere. The study results are critical to predicting potential temperature increases in world climate due to the large increase in atmospheric CO2 caused by the burning of fossil fuels. The increased atmospheric carbon dioxide may lead to a warmer Earth through the "greenhouse effect." The ocean is an important reservoir for CO2. Some estimates indicate that the ocean has absorbed nearly half of the increased CO2 produced. Additionally, CO2 constantly is being exchanged between the ocean and atmosphere. A vital input needed for climactic research is predicting the portion of the CO2 entering the ocean that will be effectively trapped or removed. In polar regions, the cold ocean surface layer sinks in some areas and becomes part of deep ocean bottom water where the entrained CO2 is effectively removed from contact with the atmosphere for long periods of time. A second important process is removal of CO2 by biological processes. Carbon dioxide from the surface layer is utilized in the marine photosynthetic process where CO2 is combined with water to form biomass. Some of this biomass is consumed in the marine food chain where a portion is released back into the water column and potentially, to the atmosphere through respiration. An unknown amount of plant and animal biomass sinks through the water column to the sea floor. Knowledge of these processes and rates also will provide scientists with information to make improved estimates of climactic changes. The NASA four-engine, P-3A turboprop aircraft, from Goddard Space Flight Center's Wallops Flight Facility, Wallops Island, Va., is equipped to measure the concentration of phytoplankton biomass in the upper ocean layer. The primary instrument, the airborne oceanographic lidar (AOL), will use a blue-green laser to stimulate fluorescence from chlorophyll contained in phytoplankton, the microscopic plants at the bottom of the marine food web. Previous aircraft chlorophyll fluorescence measurements have been shown to be highly correlated with chlorophyll concentration measurements made on board ships with standard pigment extraction techniques. In addition, other instrumentation associated with -- the AOL will be used to measure solar induced responses associated with phytoplankton in numerous bands spread across the entire visible spectrum. Over the past decade, remote-sensing scientists have been increasingly successful in deriving reliable chlorophyll concentration values from certain combinations of these passive spectral bands. The combination of laser-induced fluorescence measurements and the passive spectra will be used to further improve the potential for measuring chlorophyll from solar induced ocean color alone. The Global Ocean Flux Study efforts include scientists and research vessels from West Germany, Canada, Great Britain, the Netherlands and the United States. The study is expected to continue over the next 10 years, each year concentrating on resolving unknown aspects involving the marine carbon and related biogeochemical cycles. The initial experiment involves studies of the spring phytoplankton bloom in the eastern North Atlantic Ocean. The U.S. research vessel, the Atlantis II from Woods Hole Oceanographic Institute, has placed instrumented moorings at two sites along the 20 west meridian. The Atlantis II, along with research vessels from the other participating nations, will study related phytoplankton productivity as the bloom moves northward in response to increasing solar radiation and the development of thermal stratification in the upper ocean. The NASA aircraft will participate in the spring bloom study for a 6-week period beginning April 20. The aircraft surveys will be staged from Lajes, Azores; Shannon, Ireland; and Keflavik, Iceland. The NASA aircraft will be used to map 62 to 124 mile areas of the ocean surrounding each of the moorings. Maps showing the regional concentration of chlorophyll and sea surface temperature will be sent to the research vessels through a satellite transmission. Knowledge of the distribution of phytoplankton and sea surface temperature will be used by the scientists on board the research vessels to position the ships during the experiment and thus, optimize the time-series sampling conducted from the ships. Following the completion of aircraft deployment, the surface layer chlorophyll maps, developed from the airborne data, will be used to aid in the interpretation of the observations made from the individual research vessels. Launches of satellite ocean color scanners, proposed for the mid-late 1990's, will enable remote sensing scientists to gauge surface layer phytoplankton and production over wide areas of the ocean on a continual basis, considerably augmenting measurements made from ships and aircraft. Similar chlorophyll estimates made from the coastal zone color scanner, an ocean scanner on NASA's Nimbus 7 spacecraft which functioned for an 8-year period beginning in 1978, have allowed scientists from Goddard Space Flight Center's Laboratory for Oceans to provide maps of world-wide chlorophyll distribution which have been very valuable in planning the Global Ocean Flux Study. There currently are no ocean color satellite sensors in orbit. The earliest that such a satellite could be placed in orbit is late in 1992, which is the proposed launch date for the Compact Wide Field Spectrometer ocean color sensor. * Origin: UNITEX --> Crime Stoppers Against the New Age Hustle (1:107/501) -- unitex - via FidoNet node 1:107/520 UUCP: ...!rutgers!rubbs!unitex ARPA: unitex@rubbs.FIDONET.ORG -- Patt Haring rutgers!cmcl2!ccnysci!patth patth@ccnysci.BITNET ------------------------------ Date: 24 Apr 89 18:18:39 GMT From: trident.arc.nasa.gov!yee@ames.arc.nasa.gov (Peter E. Yee) Subject: Associate Deputy Administrator Hinners to resign (Forwarded) [I wonder how these next three release are going to look. -PEY] Jeff Vincent Headquarters, Washington, D.C. April 24, 1989 RELEASE: 89-60 ASSOCIATE DEPUTY ADMINISTRATOR HINNERS TO RESIGN Dr. Noel W. Hinners, third ranking official of NASA and the principal senior assistant to the administrator and deputy administrator, today announced his resignation from the agency, effective May 14, 1989. "I regret leaving before the transition to the new NASA administration is complete," Hinners said, "but uncertainty in interpretation of new post-employment laws led me to move the date forward. I am heartened, however, by knowing that the incoming administrator and his deputy will provide excellent leadership and advocacy of NASA and its institution." Hinners also serves as the NASA chief scientist and oversees the institutional management of the agency. As NASA chief scientist, he is the principal adviser to senior management on agency-wide aspects of NASA's scientific activities. Before his appointment to senior headquarters management in June 1987, Hinners served 5 years as director of the Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, Md. From 1979 to 1982, he was director of the Smithsonian Institution's National Air and Space Museum, Washington, D.C., and from 1974 to 1979 he served as NASA associate administrator for space science. Hinners joined NASA in 1972 as deputy director of lunar programs, Office of Space Science, NASA Headquarters. Hinners began his career in space exploration in 1963 with Bellcomm, Inc., working on the Apollo program with emphasis on the selection of lunar landing sites and design of scientific tasks for the astronauts. He received NASA Distinguished Service Medals for his leadership of the space science program and for contributions to the Viking and Voyager programs. He also has been awarded the Presidential Rank of Meritorious and Distinguished Executive. Hinners was educated at Rutgers University, California Institute of Technology and Princeton University, where he received his doctorate in geochemistry and geology in 1963. He is a member of Phi Beta Kappa and Sigma Xi, the American Geophysical Union, the American Association for the Advancement of Science and the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics. ------------------------------ Date: 24 Apr 89 18:19:25 GMT From: trident.arc.nasa.gov!yee@ames.arc.nasa.gov (Peter E. Yee) Subject: Odom announces retirement from NASA (Forwarded) Mark Hess Headquarters, Washington, D.C. April 24, 1989 RELEASE: 89-61 ODOM ANNOUNCES RETIREMENT FROM NASA James B. Odom, associate administrator for the Space Station Freedom program, announced today he will retire from NASA on April 30. "After 33 years, I've decided to make a career change," Odom said. "I regret the timing of my decision, but the impact of some upcoming changes on government retirees made it such that I did not get to pick the most desirable or optimum time to retire." Tom Moser, deputy associate administrator for the Freedom program will serve as acting associate administrator until Odom's successor is named. Odom was appointed associate administrator for the space station program in April 1988. He came to Washington, D.C., from the Marshall Space Flight Center (MSFC), Huntsville, Ala., where he had served in a number of key positions over the past 30 years. Among the positions he held at Marshall were director of the Science and Engineering Directorate, manager of the Space Telescope Project and manager of the External Tank Project. He has received numerous awards in recognition for his contributions to the space program, including the NASA Exceptional Service Medal for work on the second stage of the Apollo Saturn rocket and the NASA Distinguished Service Medal for work on the Space Shuttle program. Odom was twice awarded the Presidential Rank of Meritorious and Distinguished Executive for his efforts on the External Tank program and was most recently recognized by the National Space Club with the Astronautics Engineer Award for his engineering and management leadership. Odom began his engineering career with the Chemstrand Corp., Decatur, Ala. In 1956 he joined the U.S. Army's rocket research and development team as a systems engineer at Alabama's Redstone Arsenal, and transferred to the MSFC in 1959 prior to its formal establishment in July 1960. Odom was educated in Alabama at Troy State College and Auburn University where he earned a bachelor of science degree in mechanical engineering. He and his wife June will return to Alabama upon his retirement. ------------------------------ End of SPACE Digest V9 #396 *******************