Jul 8 1993
From The Space Library
Texas Senator Kay Bailey Hutchinson pledged to fight for the survival of NASA's Space Station as she inspected a mockup of the proposed orbital base at the Johnson Space Center in Houston. (H Chron, Jul 8/93)
Lowell Nesbitt, an artist who documented the Apollo 9 and 13 space launches for NASA, was found dead in his Manhattan studio on July 8. Death was attributed to natural causes. He was 59. (UPI, Jul 8/93)
In an ironic twist, Space Station Freedom's "program office" in Reston, Virginia, which led the charge to cut waste and inefficiency in the space program, including warnings of cost overruns at Johnson Space Center in Texas, was said to stand the best chance of being eliminated as NASA attempted to streamline the management of the Space Station program. (H Chron, Jul 8/93)
Fred E. Weick, a pioneering aviation engineer and designer died of heart disease on July 8 in Vero Beach, Florida. He was 93.
NASA officials said that Mr. Weick's "genius touched almost every aeronautical discipline" for half a century. His career was devoted to making planes more aerodynamically efficient, safer, and easier to fly. A major innovation was his stable, tricycle-like landing gear, which became standard for virtually all aircraft, including the Space Shuttle. (NY Times, Jul 11/93)
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