Sep 1 1992
From The Space Library
NASA set September 12 as the launch date for the seven-day scientific mission of the Shuttle Endeavour. The 50th Shuttle mission was to include a number of Shuttle mission firsts: the first married couple, the first black woman, and the first Japanese astronaut on a U.S. spacecraft. (NASA Release STS-47 Launch Advisory; USA Today, Sept 2/92)
NASA announced that its search for extraterrestrial intelligence (SETI) program had been renamed the High Resolution Microwave Survey in a bid to defuse criticism of the program, especially by congressional budget-cutters. The new $100 million program aimed to survey the entire sky by the year 2010 and specifically target about a thousand stars. (CSM, Sept 2/92)
Lockheed Missiles and Space Company received two NASA contracts worth $267 million for work on the Hubble Space Telescope. The flight systems contract, valued at $147 million, includes funds for servicing missions, the first of which was set for December 1993 and was to deliver an optical instrument to correct the telescope's flawed mirror. (WSJ, Sept 2/92)
Two Russian cosmonauts made a spacewalk to position a cable that will power an exterior engine on their Mir Space Station. (AP Sept 9/92)
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