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Monday. Anri 26,1971
University Daily Kansan
NASA Not Restricted to Moon
By TONDA RUSH
Korean Staff Writer
When people think of NASA, they immediately think of flights to the moon and ignore other spacecraft. The executive director for Center Research Incorporated (CRIN), said in an interview
The full title of NASA is National Aeronautics and Space Administration. Much of its work is in the area of improved aviation and environmental
If its assistance to the University of Kansas in an indication of academic achievement, education. NASA has supplied $100,000 in grants to KU for the construction of a space lab.
The focus of KU's space program is to make space technology interdisciplinary. The program's research integrates fields outside of engineering, including astronomy into the space program. Even a political scientist has become active at CRINC, Brarsaid.
For the past several months, CRINC personnel have been teaming up with people from around the world to study State University and various state agencies to compile the Kansas Environmental and health state agency Model, which is a prospectus for a future NASA program. The report lists possibilities for uses of the new Technological Satellite (ERTS).
which NASA plans to launch next year.
THE STUDY suggested that data could be compiled by ERTPs to detect water bodies and determine their algae content and chemical makeup and to investigate Kansas irrigation and
ERTS will be able to make an earth orbit in approximately 90 seconds. It can be monitored by the heart of the state can be monitored from ERTS in each orbit; therefore in six hours a week, it can be monitored and be transmitted back to the earth.
If NASA approves the project or parts of it, the brief said, it will be developed and will receive data from CRINC to be applied to various studies. The study of the environment in the state will be boosted by the new research.
About 300 schools would compete for the project, which means that KU would probably be granted only certain parts of it.
Much of NASA's emphasis in the past years has been in the Apollo program. Because KU got into NASA's program when Apollo was already begun, he didn't work on the work, but Barr said he thought that KU was beginning to contribute now.
"SOME OF THE TEAMS that are just starting school now may be able to work on the space station that NASA plans to
launch." he said.
The space station, planned for the mid 1970s, will house 12 people who will be permitted to stay in the station for a period of six weeks.
"Two astronauts will fly it (the space station). One person will be a doctor and the rest will be free to work." Barr said. He added that the next group of astronauts NASA chooses would be scientists and would be trained by NASA to meet flight requirements.
A shuttle operation will be planned to transport the researchers to the orbiting station.
Opposition to the national past has been based on the money being spent on NASA could be better spent in areas of research.
IN RESPONSE to the argument for ecology, Barr pointed to the environmental
research NASA has planned such as in the ERTS program
The space program helps the economy, also, he said.
"The industry provides jobs for people. The people in it pay taxes which are used in other programs. So the money may be spent three or four times while paying people to work." Barr said.
NASA's operations are completely in the open, he said. It is difficult for astronauts to see everything it does. Though astronauts in the past have been active or remote servicemen, they are quite limited in control and is separately funded.
KU's space research is in the open, too, figuratively and literally. The department has classified information, Barr said.
80 offices can all be seen from the floor in the center of the building. Glass panels will make it possible for the work being done in the labs.
When the new Space Technology building is opened in May, the work will be literally open for all to see. The 30 labs and
Among the programs scheduled to be carried out in the new labs are the ERTS studies if they are granted to KU, are Barr's own studies in pollution and waste industries, a microbiological study of life on Mars and research in remote sensing.
Bond Posted
Two men from EI Paz, Tex., who were arrested by Lawrence police with 50 pounds of methamphetamine in Feb. 15, have each posted bond of $4,000. They are Joe G. Quintana, 22, and his brother, Michael, 21. Both are charged with illegal marijuana with the intent to sell it.
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At 9th Annual Seminar Juvenile Expert to Speak
At 9th Annual Seminar
Robert M. Foster, a juvenile delinquency prevention expert formerly with the California Youth Authority in Los Angeles, Calif., will speak at 8 p.m. today by thinking Effective Approaches to Delinquency Prevention and Rehabilitation of Youthful Offenders."
The article also said that, "The President told Congress in an annual report on juvenile
Poster will appear at the Ninth
Delinquency Prevention and
Control as a result of a recent
article in the University Daily
The article stated that President Nixon had announced he would devise a national strategy stressing the prevention rather than correction to curb rising crime and to prevent serious crime by young people.
delinquency that existing programs cannot address. He said rehabilitation methods must be modernized, with more community-based support.
sening situation."
Later this article appeared in the Kansan, contact was made with U.S. S. Robert Dole. R. who arranged for Foster to speak.
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