Feb 10 1991
From The Space Library
Lowell Hawkinson, chairman of the Gensym Corporation of Cambridge, Massachusetts, which created the G2 system, announced that Biosphere II, would be initiated in March. Biosphere II is an environment controlled by the advanced computer program G2 and designed for eight scientists to seal themselves inside for two years. NASA had been using G2 on its Shuttle flights to control certain functions since October 1989. According to Tony Heindel, a light controller at Mission Control at the Johnson Space Center in Houston, G2 monitors 16,000 data points per second, gathering such information as temperature, voltages, availability of jet thrusters, and condition of on-board computers and instruments. (NY Times, Feb 10/91)
The Philadelphia Inquirer reviewed The Steel Albatross, a novel about an underwater craft undetectable by sonar, just published by NASA astronaut M. Scott Carpenter. Concurrently, it reviewed Aurora 7, an account of the way in which various actual and fictional people were affected by Carpenter's flight in the Aurora 7 space capsule. (P Inq, Feb 10/91; W Post, Feb 17/91)
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