Mar 12 1987
From The Space Library
The NASA Advisory Council recommended that the space agency acquire a diversified fleet of expendable launch vehicles (ELVs) to preserve the Space Shuttle for missions requiring unique capabilities. (NASA Release 87-30)
A spokesman at the NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory said that NASA's Deep Space Network station near Canberra, Australia, configured with Australia's Parkes Radio Observatory, was observing radio wave emissions from Supernova 1987a, first detected by astronomers in the large Magellanic cloud on February 24, 1987. (NASA Release 87-31)
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