+ 1970 News Releases (7.6 Mb PDF file) - NASA

I_ .TIONAL AERONAUTICS AND SPACE ADMINISTRATION
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483-5111 Hold For Release Until May 24, _970
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HOUSTON_ TEXAS--A new dimension in information gathering for
the 1970 census is being conducted from an altitude of 10 miles with
the aid of aircraft from the NASA Manned Spacecraft Center_ Houston_
Texas.
NASA is flying a four engine RB57F jet over selected U. S.
cities gathering photographic data for census correlation studies
for the U.S. Geological Survey. In recent weeks_ the RB57F - part
of the NASA Earth Resources Survey Program operated by the Manned
Spacecraft Center's Science and Applications Directorate - has conducted
aerial photographic surveys of Asheville_ N. C._ Atlanta_ Ga._
New 0rleans_ La._ and three Texas cities - Dallas_ Houston_ and
Wichita Falls. Susan Moorlag_ Robert Alexander and James R. Wray
of the USGS are co-investigators for the census flights.
Other cities which will be photographed during the next several
weeks are: Aurora_ Illinois; Boston_ Massachusetts; Cedar Eapids_ Iowa;
Denver_ Colorado; E1 Paso_ Texas; La_£ence_ Kansas; Midland_ Texas; New
Haven_ Connecticut; Peoria_ Illinois; Phoenix_ Arizona; Pontiac_ Michigan;
Riverside_ California; Salt Lake City_ Utah; San Francisco, California;
San Juan, Puerto Rico_ Seattle, Washington; Tampa_ Florida; Tucson, Arizona;
Washington, D. C.; and West PaLm Beach_ Florida.
The RB57F is one of the three aircraft used in the aircraft
survey program. The three aircraft - the 57F, C-13OB and NP3A
Lockheed Electra - fly multi-disciplined earth resource study missions
-]J_.