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Cutbacks in NASA funding and the space shuttle's budget over-runs have forced NASA to "stretch out" some of the experiment proposals they originally had accepted, James Cornell, a spokesman for the Center for Astrophysics, said Monday. "Stretched out is a euphemistic phrase for postponed indefinitely although not canceled...
Giovanni Fazio, who is also a lecturer on Astronomy, is the only Harvard scientist with a definite slot for his experiment--on space lab II, the shuttle's 22nd flight, now scheduled for 1984. Fazio's proposal is a telescope designed to detect regions in the galaxy where stars are...
The fourth Harvard scientist with a space shuttle experiment, William Parkinson, associate director of the Center for Astrophysics, could not be reached for comment on his project--a solar and terrestrial atmosphere spectrometer. Spectrometers are used to analyze the composition of gases by the unique characteristics of the light emitted...
The first of these instruments is the feature identification and location experiment (FILE), which examines the brightness of such features as vegetation, water, desert areas, snow, or cloud cover, using light sensors and television cameras. By classifying each feature in terms of its brightness reading, scientists can use FILE information...
Finally, the ocean color experiment (OCE) scanned ocean areas for traces of chlorophyll, the green pigment in plants. The presence of chlorophyll would indicate the location of marine plants and large concentrations of fish, information of great interest to commercial fisheries.