Jun 24 1993
From The Space Library
NASA announced that a NASA-University of New Hampshire study had revealed increased tropical deforestation and adverse effects on tropical forest habitat since the late 1970s. (NASA Release 93-119)
NASA Administrator Daniel S. Goldin announced the appointment of two astronauts, William M. Shepherd and James D. Wetherbee, to senior management positions at NASA Headquarters, Washington, DC. (NASA Release June 24/93)
The Washington Post reported that a White House official had indicated that President Clinton intended to retain NASA Administrator Daniel S. Goldin, a Bush appointee. The White House apparently had decided that Goldin was just the type of hard-nosed Administrator that NASA needed. (W Post, June 24/93; UPI, June 24/93)
Responding to an Op-Ed piece by John Lukacs in the New York Times that attacked both the Super Collider and the field of particle physics, Edward Farhi, Professor of Physics, MIT, insisted that the Super Collider would open a new window on an energy range not yet explored by physicists, saying that it must be built if "progress is to proceed." (NY Times, June 24/93)
Some members of Congress have introduced a bill that would bar space advertising. The bill would prohibit the transportation secretary from issuing launch licenses for any vehicles carrying materials to be used as ads in space. (W Times, June 24/93)
Writing in the journal Nature, scientists reported that they think they have discovered a belt of asteroids in orbits so close to the Earth's orbit that many of them may hit our planet at some time or other. However, most of these asteroids are so small that they will explode in space without doing any dam-age. (NY Times, June 24/93)
Western Europe's Ariane 42P rocket deployed an American communications satellite into space on June 24. The rocket, which was launched from French Guyana after a long series of delays, was owned by the Los Angeles based Hughes Space and Communications Company. (RTW, June 24/93)
The House of Representatives voted to kill the $11 billion Superconducting Super Collider project. The project, which had President Clinton's support, was being built in Texas. The Super Collider, which was designed to discover sub-atomic particles that could provide clues to the origins of the universe, fell victim to political and budget pressures. (RTW, June 24/93; UPI, June 24/93; NY Times, June 25/93; B Sun, June 25/93; W Post, June 25/93)
Officials said that talks between Vice President Al Gore and Russian Prime Minister Viktor Chernomyrdin to discuss mutual space exploration had been put off indefinitely because of friction over a $400 million contract for Russia to sell rocket engines to India. (UPI, June 24/93; RTW, June 25/93)
Writing in the Chicago Tribune, commentator Joan Beck called on Congress to kill the Space Station. She admitted that killing the project would cost jobs, but argued that doing so was necessary if progress were to he made in cutting back the deficit. (C Trib, June 24/93)
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