Jun 6 1991
From The Space Library
Extensive coverage was given to the launch of Columbia on June 5 and the astronauts' biomedical studies. (B Sun, Jun 6/91; P Inq, Jun 6/91; NY Times, Jun 6/91; W Post, Jun 6/91; W Times, Jun 6/91; C Trin, Jun 6/91; LA Times, Jun 6/91; AP, Jun 6/91; UPI, Jun 6/91)
The media reported on Administration efforts to have the elimination of funding for the Space Station reversed in the House of Representatives. In this connection, the New York Times carried a major editorial urging that the Space Station not be funded. In response to that editorial, NASA Administrator Richard H. Truly released a letter of support for the Space Station from Thomas Stafford, Chairman of the Synthesis Group, to Representative George Brown, Chairman of the House Committee on Science, Space, and Technology. (USA Today, Jun 6/91; NY Times, Jun 6/91; NASA Release N91-42; WSJ, Jun 6/91; CSM, Jun 6/91; UPI, Jun 6/91)
An article in the Washington Post commented that the House Appropriations Committee's decision to delete funding for NASA's Space Station from the 1992 budget represented a setback for a number of defense and space-related contractor companies that were counting on the project. (W Post, Jun 6/91)
A Christian Science Monitor editorial commended NASA's work with regard to the Magellan spacecraft's survey of the surface of Venus. However, the editorial deplored the indecision and delays in the U.S. space program resulting from congressional ambivalence and stressed the need for the administration to achieve a sustainable program. (CSM, Jun 6/91)
AP reported that researchers had found that the seeds, spores, and shrimp eggs flown on the Long Duration Exposure Facility for five years by NASA experienced some bizarre mutations but space radiation had a less serious effect on the life forms than expected. (AP, Jun 6/91)
NASA Administrator Richard H. Truly issued a statement following action by the House of Representatives to continue the development of Space Station Freedom. Truly commended the bipartisan vote in the House, expressed his confidence that Freedom would win support in the Senate, and expressed his commitment to shape the final NASA FY 1992 budget in a way that balanced the various research and project areas. (NASA Release 91-88)
Nature magazine contained an article by its associate editor David Lindley that was extremely laudatory of the findings of the Hubble Space Telescope, in spite of its flaws. He referred specifically to data obtained from the two spectrometers, designed to operate primarily at ultraviolet wavelengths to which the Earth's atmosphere is opaque. (Nature, Jun 6/91)
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