Feb 15 1991
From The Space Library
Space News for this day. (1MB PDF)
NASA officials at Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, Maryland, announced the termination of the contract with General Electric Company, Astro-Space Division, for the design, development, and testing of the Attached Payload Accommodation Equipment (APAE) element of Space Station Freedom. A congressionally mandated review of the Freedom program contributed to the APAE termination. (NASA Release 91-27)
The Washington Times cited a congressional report, Orbiting Debris: A Space Environmental Problem, by the Office of Technology Assessment. The report warned of problems to space missions from debris in space and the need for international negotiations in this regard. (W Times, Feb 15/91; UPI, Feb 19/91)
The 10-day global warming conference of some 100 nations ended with little agreement. Delegates agreed to establish two working groups to consider a draft of a treaty at a second round of talks later in 1991. The United States and other countries hesitated to commit themselves on specific emission reductions. (W Times, Feb 15/91; USA Today, Feb 15/91; W Post, Feb 15/91)
The media reported that Shuttle Discovery was hauled to its launch pad at Cape Canaveral, Florida. Scheduled for a March blastoff, its mission was to team more about how to detect rockets in flight, part of the Strategic Defense Initiative missile defense program. (UPI, Feb 15/91; LA Times, Feb 16/91)
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