Jul 22 1986
From The Space Library
Testing of recently installed weather protection structures was scheduled for August 19 at the Kennedy Space Center in Florida with Space Shuttle Atlantis. The $3.3 million system of sliding and folding doors and seals would cover previously exposed, lower portions of the orbiter and greatly reduce risk to the heat protection tiles, subject to damage from heavy rains, hail, and wind-blown debris. (NASA Release 86-95)
Thomas Paine, Laurel Wilkening, George Field, Jack Kerrebrock, Kathryn Sullivan, and Carl Sagan testified before Congress concerning Paine's report, "Pioneering the Space Frontier." (Hearing before the Committee on Science and Technology, July 22/86)
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