Feb 8 1999
From The Space Library
NASA Administrator Daniel S. Goldin named Kevin L. Petersen, who had been serving in an acting capacity since August 1998, as Director of NASA's Dryden Flight Research Center (DFRC) in Edwards, California. Petersen had joined Dryden as an aerospace engineer in 1974 and had worked on flight-research projects, including the F-8 Digital Fly-by-Wire, the HiMAT (the Highly Maneuverable Aircraft Technology), and the X-29 forward-swept wing projects. He had served as Chief of the Vehicle Technology Branch, Chief of the National Aerospace Plane Projects Office, and, since January 1996, as DFRC's Deputy Director
NASA released findings from its Near Earth Asteroid Rendezvous (NEAR) spacecraft's flyby of asteroid 433, known as Eros. The flyby had occurred on 23 December 1998. The NEAR spacecraft's instruments had collected data revealing that the asteroid was slightly smaller than previously thought, with at least two medium-sized craters and a density comparable to that of the Earth's crust.
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