Shuttle cargo offer

Press, 28 April 1981, Page 6

Shuttle cargo offer

PA Wellington A National’ Aeronautics and Space Administration offer to New Zealand universities to carry. experiments aboard the isfpafe shuttle should be taken jup. says a Department of Splbhtific and Industrial Research scientist. ■ Papers from N.A.S.A:,'pji fering terms of $3OOO for a cargo of 1.5 cubic feet‘and cargoes of up to five cubic feet for $lO,OOO, on Mure shuttle flights, have arrived at universities . during Htfie last few days. • (l ■ The head of the remote sensing section of ; the D.S.LR, Dr P. J. Ellis, who has worked on the Imbus series of satellites in Britain and the United States, said schools and universities should be encouraged to take up N.A.S.A.’s offer.) s

He said someone should look at the formation, of a space agency in New?. Zea-, land. - ’■ .; In Auckland, a. university physics department spokesman said the experiments N.A.S.A. had offered to do were ones New Zealand would be interested jin and that the offer could be Within the financial resources of university, groups.