Jul 30 1993
From The Space Library
NASA negotiated with PRC, Inc. of McLean, Virginia, a sole source contract extension to provide data processing and telecommunications sup-port for NASA Headquarters, Washington, D.C. (NASA Release C93-o)
NASA astronaut Bernard A. Harris Jr., M.D. was scheduled to present a National Urban League (NUL) banner, flown on the STS-55 Space Shuttle mission, to NUL President John Jacob during the organization's opening keynote ceremony on Sunday, August 1, in Washington, DC. (NASA Media Advisory)
Arkansas Governor Jim Guy Tucker and Thomas J. Lee, Director of NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center, Huntsville, Alabama, signed a memorandum of understanding to conduct a joint effort to transfer NASA-derived and NASA-contractor derived technologies to businesses, industries, academic institutions, research facilities, and individuals in the state. (NASA Release 93-138)
NASA postponed a scheduled launch of Space Shuttle Discovery until August 12 because of the Perseid meteor shower. This was the third time the mission had been delayed. The Perseid meteor shower occurs each August; it was expected to be more intense than usual this August, raising the possibility that a spacecraft in Earth's orbit could be damaged by a piece of debris. (UPI, Jul 30/93; RTW, Jul 30/93; AP, Jul 31/93; W Post, Jul 31/93; NY Times, Jul 31/93; B Sun, Aug 4/93; USA Today, Aug 10/93, Aug 11/93, Aug 12/93)
Reuters reported that British television had shown rare film of a string of Soviet space disasters, most of which were kept secret at the time by the Communist leadership. The film, which became available after the breakup of the Soviet Union, shows the "Nedelin explosion" that killed a top Soviet official in 1960, rescue workers trying unsuccessfully to revive three cosmonauts killed after the Soyuz 11 landing in 1971, and the wreckage of the Soyuz 1, in which Vladimir Komarov was killed in 1967. (RTW, Jul 30/93)
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