Feb 13 1990
From The Space Library
Scientists, after taking their first long look at the Long Duration Exposure Facility recovered by Space Shuttle Columbia in January, said the varied surfaces of the satellite showed signs of pits, scars, and discoloration in some areas while being strangely unscathed in others. The surfaces revealed no "showstoppers" however. The satellite was an experiment meant to test materials for use in building spacecraft and the Space Station. (W Post, Feb 13/86; NASA Release 90-23)
The 12-year-old Voyager 1, into deep space and some 3.7 billion miles from Earth on this date, began taking 64 pictures of our solar system for a kind of "family portrait." NASA considered having the pictures, which were too large for publication, displayed in a 100-foot exhibit produced by Los Angeles artist David Hockney. (USA Today, Feb 14/86, AP, Feb 14/86)
Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Alabama, announced the selection of Teledyne Brown Engineering for negotiations leading to a $172 million contract for payload mission integration. Under the contract, the company would provide management, personnel, equipment, services, supplies, facilities, and materials for Shuttle/Spacelab missions. Spacelab, carried in the Shuttle's cargo bay, converted the Shuttle into a versatile on-orbit research center. (NASA Release C90-f)
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