Aug 1 1986
From The Space Library
The Lunar and Planetary Laboratory at the University of Arizona and NASA's Johnson Space Center in Houston, Texas, planned a Planet Mercury Conference for early August. More than 10 years had elapsed since the last conference and a significant amount of data had developed during the interim. Scheduled topics included Mercury's role in helping scientists under-stand the origin of planets, Mercury as an end-member planet, ground-based and Earth-orbital observations of Mercury, and possible spacecraft missions to the planet. (NASA Release)
In Space Station Phase B Program Level Agreement, NASA and the ESA announced agreement on hardware elements for a preliminary design of a permanently attached pressurized laboratory module and a polar orbiting platform, the latter for conducting Earth observations. Under the agreement, ESA would conduct research on a preliminary design of a man-tended free-flyer (pressurized module and resource module) for international utilization, primarily in the fields of material and life sciences and fluid physics, that would require both a long-duration and undisturbed microgravity environment. (NASA Release 86-104)
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