Jan 28 1988
From The Space Library
NASA Administrator Dr. James C. Fletcher and Hiroyuki Osawa, President of the National Space Development Agency of Japan (NASDA), recently signed an agreement to allow NASA to directly receive data from Japan's Earth Resources Satellite (ERS-1). The agreement would allow NASA to have access to real-time data from Japan's ERS- 1 synthetic aperture radar and optical sensor. NASA would receive the data at a ground station at he University of Alaska, Fairbanks. Data from the ground station would be provided to NASDA. Japan's ERS-l was scheduled to be launched by NASDA on the H-l launch vehicle in early 1992. (NASA Release 88-12)
NASA commemorated the second anniversary of the Space Shuttle Challenger accident. At the Kennedy Space Center (KSC), Florida, workers preparing to resume Shuttle flights paused to pay silent tribute to the Challenger crew by halting all activity at 11:38 a.m., the time of the Challenger liftoff from launch Pad 39-B on January 28, 1986. Flags around KSC and at NASA Centers throughout the country were lowered to half staff while workers stood silent for 73 seconds, the length of the fatal Challenger flight. Just before the ceremony, KSC Director Forrest S. McCartney spoke to workers over a television circuit and loudspeakers saying: "As we make preparations to return the Space Shuttles to flight this year, it is appropriate to remember the men and women of the Challenger crew." (UPI, Jan 28/88; LA Times, Jan 29/88; C Trib, Jan 29/88)
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