Jun 7 1993
From The Space Library
Space News for this day. (1MB PDF)
NASA announced that June 20, 1993, had been set as the new launch date for the next flight of Space Shuttle Endeavour. The launch originally had been scheduled for June 3. (NASA Launch Advisory)
NASA announced that recent discoveries from the Agency's Extreme Ultraviolet Explorer (EUVE) would be presented at the National Meeting of the American Astronomical Society, University of California at Berkeley on June 7 and 8.
The new results included discovery of elements that blanket the light from white dwarf stars, the detection of ionized helium in the local interstellar gas, the detection of an extreme ultraviolet shadow in the local interstellar medium, and new findings on the mysteries of rare extragalactic objects. (NASA Release 93-105; AP, June 8/93)
A Russian would-be cosmonaut, now in the United States pursuing a doctorate in space policy at American University in Washington, was in Houston for three months on a U.S. government subcontract, helping two Russian cosmonauts pre-pare for flights in U.S. spaceships in 1993 and 1995. (LA Times, June 7/93)
The Wall Street Journal reported that critics were warning that President Clinton's plan to redesign the Space Station might inadvertently end up killing the program because of concerns about cost estimates and technology. "I believe there's a real possibility [the Space Station] may not survive because of political considerations," said John Winch, a Boeing Company vice president. (WSJ, June 7/93)
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