Jun 25 1993
From The Space Library
After making a final series of engine maneuvers that brought it within reach of the European Retrievable Carrier (EURECA), a free-flying platform of science experiments, the commander of Shuttle Endeavour plucked the satellite out of space and stowed it in the Shuttle's cargo hold for return to Earth.
Astronaut David Low fixed two stuck antennas on EURECA during a later spacewalk; during the walk, which was originally planned as an training exercise to prepare for the Hubble Space Telescope repair mission, he also twirled another astronaut around to test how difficult it would be to move large objects in space. Astronauts also worked, unsuccessfully as it turned out, on repairing a clogged line in a water-recycling experiment. (W Post, June 25/93, June 26/93; LA Times, June 25/93, June 27/93; NY Times, June 25/93, June 29/93; AP, June 25/93; RTW, June 25/93; USA Today, June 25/93, June 28/93; B Sun, June 26/93; W Times, June 26/93; P Inq, June 26/93; P Inq, June 29/93)
Satellite research supported by NASA found that far fewer trees had been cut in the Amazon rain forest than previously assumed. However, the same study also found that three times as many animal and plant species were being killed or were near extinction than previously had been estimated. (AP, June t/25; W Post, June 25/93; RTW, June 24/93; NY Times, June 29/93)
Western Europe's second Ariane-5 booster was tested in a jungle clearing in French Guyana, space officials announced. The first Ariane-5 rocket was scheduled for launch in 1996. (RTW, June 25/93)
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