Sep 22 1992
From The Space Library
A NASA airplane, equipped with delicate instruments, carried three astronomers to 41,000 feet above Hawaii last month to examine indications of a "black hole" at the heart of the Milky Way Galaxy. The launch of the Hubble Space Telescope and improvements in ground-based instruments led to several announcements this year of tangible evidence for the existence of "black holes." (LA Times, Sept 21/92)
House-Senate negotiators agreed yesterday to provide $2.1 billion next fiscal year for Space Station Freedom. The agreement spelled the end of another year of efforts by opponents to kill a program they consider too expensive and of little scientific value. The Space Station was expected to cost $40 billion to build and $100 billion more to operate over its planned 30-year life-time. (W Post, Sept 23/92; USA Today, Sept 23/92; LA Times, Sept 23/92; The Sun, Sept 23/92; AP, Sept 23/92)
NASA inspectors announced that they had discovered a pinhole-size leak in an 0-ring seal of a Solid Rocket Booster intended for Space Shuttle Discovery's November 15 launch. Technicians replaced the seal, which was similar to the one that caused the 1986 Challenger explosion. (USA Today, Sept 23/92; W Times, Sept 23/92; AP, Sept 23; UPI, Sept 23/92)
NASA announced plans to revamp its cumbersome procurement rules to entice more small businesses to bid for contracts as a way of ensuring continued technological and economic growth in the United States. (Fla Today, Sept 23/92; Space News, Sept 28-Oct 4/92)
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