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If all goes according to
schedule, Apollo 15 will be
launched to the Moon July 26.
As in the past three success
ful lunar landing missions,
this expedition Is expected
to yield valuable and unique
scientific information—know
ledge about our Moon, Sun,
and Earth and how man fun
tions in strange environ
ments.
The National Aeronautics
and Space Administration,
which manages these missions,
has a broad responsibility,
which includes developing the
tools and techniques for ex
panding our knowledge of
phenomena in the atmosphere
and space.
NASA’s research work in
aeronautics and astronautics
has revolutionized such fields
as weather forecasting and
communications and promis
es even more far - ranging
development in monitoring
the Earth’s resources.
Other fields, medical tech
nology in particular, have ben
efited from space - related in
vestigations.
Aeronautics
—A joint study the
Department of Transportation
and NASA gives top priori
ty to the need for reducing
aircraft noise and airport
area congestion. NASA Is
currently working on quiet
er jet engines. The DOT
NASA study asks a reduction
of at least ton decibels each
ten decibels each ten years
until aircraft noise is sup
pressed into community back
ground noise.
—NASA hopes to find a way
to provide an effective air
transportation system for trav
ellers in smaller cities and less
densely populated arcai3jjL|l!
concept -■-'’'eallsidi the “dpSPa
plane” system ' makes use of
computerized routing and could
work somewhat' as a cross be
tween an air charter taxi op
eration and a scheduled air
shuttle.
—The supercritical wing
is a new airfoil shape that
would allow aircraft of the
future to travel farther on
less fuel. Shaped almost the
opposite from conventional
wings, the supercritical wing
has a relatively flat top and
a rounded bottom to delay the
rise in aerodynamic drag un
til the aircraft is flying at a
high speed.
—Borrowing . from Apollo
technology, NASA will soon be
gin flight research ;to demon
strate that aircraft of the fu
ture can be flown by an elec
tronic control system like that
used in spacecraft.
Earth Resources
pi will provide
geodes and uni
jsts who will
with experience
craft- - obtained
to that which
versity
analyze
—General aviation manu
facturers are usually small
compared to other aerospace
manufacturers and lack the
large engineering staffs
needed to adapt new tech
nology rapidly to their needs.
Realizing this problem, NASA
contracted for approximate
ly 10,000 aeronautical docu
ments to be organized, cata
logued, and evaluated. Mater
ial pertinent to the design of
light aircraft is presented in
the form of abstracts.
—NASA research ■ continues
to contribute to the increas
ingly important field of re
mote sending of Earth resources.
One of the objectivest of a re
cently expanded Airborne R>
search Program is to stimulate
over four tcolqgical teits sites
(one in Aifmn, two in Cali
fornia, aM the Chesapeake Bay
area) as closely as possible the
data output of the Earth Re
sources Technology Satellite
(ERTS) scheduled for launch
in 1972.
data
will
—A
search
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ducting a corn blight watch.
Goals of the project are to
monitor development and
spread of corn blight during
the growing season across
the com belt region; evaluate
remote: sensing techniques in
assessing levels Of infection
in the corn belt; evaluate re
mote sensing's capability to
assess the status and portable
impact on the corn blight and
other plant problems; and
evaluate results for feasibil
ity of application to similar
situations occurring in the
future. (
—In the Caribbean, the gov
ern merit of Jamica has asked
the U.S. to assist in surveying
the island’s natural resources.
A specially instrumented air
craft will make flights over the
island and its surrounding
waters at various altitudes to
gather the data.
—In another international
teveltpmcnt, Canada and the
IT. S. have agreed to a joint
program for- the use of satel
lites and aircraft in surveys
of the natural environment.
The program will investigate
remote sensing to monitor air.
water, land, forests, and crop
conditions, and the mapping .of.
ice mqvejnohts and
in cprr
rents in Canadian and Ameri
can waters. Snapping of geo
logic. hydrologic, vegetation,
and foil phenomena will also
be carried Out.
, —Means Bor detecting and
determining the size of oil
slicks with air-borne sensing
deviM%~anlA Bator, it appears,
hy satellite, have hem de
veloped. The sensors can de
tect and distinguish between
search techniques at the Ames
Rsearch Center, Mountain View,
Calif., originally developed to
explore- the evolution of plane
tary atmospheres and for in
vestigations into the origins of
life.
—With the Department of
Agriculture, NASA is con
Making Gift To Coronary Care
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the behavior of certain types
of cancer. He was-studying
the effects of ionizing space
radiations in' interfering with
normal cell division.
—Doctors can watch a movie
of the beating of a patient’s di
seased heart — identifying
dead sp'ots or scar tissue in the
heart wall, aneurisms, and
other malfunctions — with a
computer method devised by a
NASA - Stanford University
team.
—A small analog computer
that, can continuously moni
tor changes in a patient’s
blood pressure and cardiac'
output has been developed at
NASA’S Lewis Research Cen
ter, Cleveland.
—Scientists from the Stan
ford University School of Medi
cine and NASA have success
used sonar to monitor a Medi
cine and NASA have success
fully used sonar to monitor a
patient’s heartbeat add blood
circulation. The studies can be
made by a trained person in
the doctor’s office or at bed
side in a matter of minutes.
—A brain sensor and radio
transmitter system develop
ed for space medical research
with test pilots appears to al
low major improvements in
diagnosis and theatment of
schizophrenic mental pa
tients. •
—The computer used to en
chance pictures radioed back
from the‘Moon and Mars
been successfully used
analjfte pictures of human
chroitiosomes. 'Chromosomes in
a human blood cell have been
analyzed in three minutes,
pbopt one - tenth the time re
quired previously. ;
i of a
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yoawg wotnan whom it
nal bleeding could net be
.Stepped by established pen
ceaures.
Other Fields
—Early warnings from satel
Persons desiring to make
gifts to the Intensive Nursing
Unit at the new Transyl
vania Community hospital,
where coronary care will
lie promised, can do so
by giving them to Mrs.
Nell Disher at the First
Citizens Bank and Trust
Cortpany, Brevard, or they
can be matted to her at that
address.
Mrs. Disher says that
gifts designated for this
1CC1I should be marked “In
Memory of . . .” and a suit
able acknowledgement will
be mailed.
if they had not been evacuated.
—Techniques developed h
the space program to sep
arate chemical fuels in
NASA boosters are now be
ing adapted to separate oil
from our hdtiral waters to
reduce pollution.
—Work done in developing
high performance in rocket en
gines has been adapted for use
in reducing industrial pollu
tion.
—An entire industry has
grown out of research and
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from $16,MO to about f«0.
—The computer industry,
stimulated and acoelerated hy
space research req-:-*"
has growii to an |8
year industry employing
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