Feb 16 1994
From The Space Library
NASA announced that the official launch date of Space Shuttle Columbia would be March 3. During the 14-day flight, a five-person crew was to conduct numerous scientific experiments ranging from materials processing to biotechnology and environmental monitoring. (NASA Editor's Note N94-18; AP, Feb 16/94; Reuters, Feb 16/94; W Times, Feb 17/94)
The European Space Agency (ESA) Governing Council announced in Paris it would proceed with a manned space program by the year 2000. Jean-Marie Luton, the French director general of ESA, said member states had approved a $227 million Manned Space Transportation Program and construction of a $299 million Columbus module to form part of the U.S. Space Station Freedom being prepared by NASA. The program was to include a Crew Transport Vehicle (CTV) to be launched by a European Ariane rock-et. Meanwhile, Jan-Baldem Mennicken, chief of Germany's space agency DARA, revealed Germany's 1994 space program. Costing $940 million, it was $117 less than that for 1993. The budget included $579 million for ESA, with the remainder including funds for international programs for Earth observation and a 20-nation project to send a satellite to Mars from the Russian Baikonur Space Center in October 1994. (Reuters, Feb 16/94)
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