May 31 1993
From The Space Library
Space News for this day. (1MB PDF)
Reuter reported that Australian rocket scientists had completed the world's first successful test flight of a model scramjet, a supersonic air-breathing engine that might make sub-orbital space flight common. (RTW, May 31/93)
The Washington Post reported that the Space Station Freedom redesign team was struggling over a key issue: how to cut the facility's costs while retaining enough power to make the facility worth building. In 1985, NASA engineers envisioned a power system that supplied 135,000 kilowatts (kWs), far more than any other spacecraft. The basic outline of the original plan remained, but the planned capacity had dropped to about 57kW. President Clinton could select a new space design by mid-June. (W Post, May 31/93; USA Today, June 2/93)
The Washington Times printed a letter from Richard A. Kerr, senior writer at Science and author of an article on ozone depletion in the magazine, in which he disputed the Times' coverage of his article. Contrary to what the Times said, Kerr maintained that he did not in any way question the fundamental fact of ozone depletion, which, Kerr said, continues at a pace far faster than imagined 10 years ago. (W Times, May 31/93)
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