May 3 1992
From The Space Library
Senate leaders announced the appointment of Harriett G. Jenkins, Assistant Administrator for Equal Opportunity Programs at NASA, to head the Senate's new office of fair employment practices. Carl D. Moore, general counsel for the General Accounting Office's personnel appeals board, was named Deputy Director in a joint appointment by Majority Leader George J. Mitchell of Maine and Minority Leader Robert J. Dole of Kansas. (W Post, May 3/92)
If Japan follows through on plans to launch a probe toward Mars in 1996, it will become the third Nation to explore the red planet, following the U.S. and Russia. Budgeted at $96.8 million, the 550-pound Japanese probe has been dubbed Planet B. It would begin to orbit Mars by October 1997, according to Japan's Institute of Space and Astronomical Science, which is planning the project. (Parade Magazine, Mar 3/92)
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