Nov 5 1970
From The Space Library
Success of NASA-Purdue Univ. study to detect corn blight infestation with sensing devices [see Sept. 6] was announced by NASA. Most precise data had come from multispectral scanner flown at 900 m (3000 ft) by Univ. of Michigan's C-47 aircraft. Combined with ground computer readouts, scanner data classified corn as healthy or as suffering very mild blight, mild blight, moderately severe blight, or severe blight. While infrared photos showed little difference, scanner data could make distinction. (NASA Release 70188)
Nato I, satellite, launched by NASA March 20 for NATO, had met mission objectives and was operating satisfactorily, NASA announced. (NASA Proj Off)
Four-man crew successfully completed 159-day, 11000-km (7000-mi) journey from Guayaquil, Ecuador, to Mooloolaba, Australia, in 7.9m (26-ft) raft to prove South American Indians could have sailed to Australia centuries ago. Expedition was headed by Prof. Vital Alzar of Spain, who was making second attempt to cross Pacific on raft. Others were Marco Modena of France, Norman Terenault of Canada, and Gabriel Salas of Chile. (UPI, W Post, 11/6/70, A18)
Dr. James A. Van Allen, Univ. of Iowa physicist and discoverer of radiation belts encircling earth, said in Durham, N.H., that U.S. should phase out manned space programs. Maintenance of men in spacecraft "increases the cost of a given mission enormously and risks human life unnecessarily, and in a conspicuous and dramatic way." Dr. Van Allen was in Durham to deliver first Spaulding Distinguished Series lecture at Univ. of New Hampshire. (AP, W Post, 11 /6/70, A7)
N.Y. State Supreme Court Appellate Div. ruled unanimously that Cornell Univ. had right to sell Cornell Aeronautical Laboratory to private, profit-making company, EDP Technology, Inc. Decision upset 1969 State Supreme Court ruling that laboratory had been created as public trust and therefore could not be sold to private company. Appellate Div. held that laboratory had been transferred to Cornell as gift without any restrictions. (AP, NYT, 11/6/70)
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