Oct 17 1973
From The Space Library
NASA and National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration researchers had devised a system to anticipate and counter the effects of lightning at Kennedy Space Center, NOAA announced. A network of instruments measured the area's electric field and a weather radar monitored rain-cloud precipitation, and a computer displayed electric-field contour maps of the launch area. KSC personnel would be able to forecast lightning while a launch vehicle was on the pad and during the low-altitude portion of its ascent, so that persons and equipment could be protected. (NOAA Release 73-210)
Maryland State Police officials ordered troopers to search the sky for any abnormal light phenomena after receiving hundreds of reports of lights in the sky. One report came from a State Police helicopter pilot, who said he had seen a "very large" airborne vehicle with bright lights. Flight controllers at Andrews Air Force Base, Md., later said the object might have been a "special experimental aircraft testing an innovative lighting system for NASA." (B Sun, 10/18/73, A3)
Telecare, an 18-kg (40-1b) medical unit equipped to diagnose and treat victims at a scene of emergency, had been developed by SCI Systems, Inci. from space technology, NASA announced. The ambulance-stored unit with two-way voice and telemetry communications permitted medical technicians to administer prompt professional care with special equipment under radio supervision of a doctor miles away. (NASA Release 73-209)
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