Jan 16 1996
From The Space Library
Lockheed Martin announced its intention to cut 200 jobs at its facility for the production of external fuel tanks for NASA's Space Shuttle. NASA's budget reductions had caused the layoffs, according to Lockheed. Lockheed Martin's facility in New Orleans employed more than 2,500 workers in 1996.
NASA released time-lapse photographs taken by the Hubble Space Telescope (HST), making the images immediately available on the Internet. Based on these images, lauded as the deepest images of the universe ever taken, scientists raised their estimate of the number of galaxies in the universe from 10 to 50 billion; "Suddenly, Universe Gains 40 Billion More Galaxies," the New York Times reported. Using a narrow "keyhole" view and focusing the HST on a portion of the sky only the width of a dime, telescope operators probed deep into the universe. The images revealed the process of a star's death, as well as new information about how galaxies evolve. HST astronomer Howard E. Bond estimated that the Sun would die out in about 5 billion years.
Space Shuttle Endeavour's crew used the spacecraft's 50-foot (15-meter) robotic arm to snare NASA's Office of Aeronautics and Space Technology Flyer (OAST-Flyer satellite. The OAST- Flyer, valued at US$ 10 million, weighed 2,600 pounds (1,200 kilograms).
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