Aug 25 1994
From The Space Library
NASA announced that astronaut Franklin Chang-Diaz would be payload commander for the Space Shuttle mission scheduled for early 1996 in which the Tethered Satellite System (TSS) would be flown for the second time. Because of the preparation time required for this mission designed to orbit the TSS at the end of a 13-mile-long tether to test techniques for man-aging aircraft at great distances and to study the electrodynamic effects of moving a conductive tether through the Earth's magnetic field, the selection was made early. (NASA Release 94-142)
NASA announced that it, a team of U.S. aircraft and engine manufacturers, and the Russian aircraft firm, Tupolev Design Bureau, planned to use a Russian Tu-144 supersonic transport as a flying testbed for conducting flight research on high-speed enabling technologies. Included in the U.S. team were Boeing, McDonnell Douglas, Rockwell International, General Electric, and Pratt & Whitney. (NASA Release 94-143; Antelope Valley Press, Sep 1/94)
NASA's Johnson Space Center (JSC), Houston, announced the selection of Loral Space Information Systems of League City, Texas, to provide support services for JSC's Safety, Reliability, and Quality Assurance Office. (NASA Release C94-cc)
At Rockwell International's Science Center in Thousand Oaks, California, scientists such as Maribeth Hunt were finding ways to transfer environmentally oriented space science to uses on Earth. For example, Hunt was packaging a spaceship's laser-powered, toxic-gas analyzer into something the size of a duffel bag that earthly health officials could use to catch industrial polluters. (LA Times, Aug 25/94)
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