Nov 13 1994
From The Space Library
NASA was learning to "fly leaner" as a result of a shrinking budget. Examples given were that launches now were no longer scheduled on weekends when overtime would need to be paid and if the weather were bad, liftoff was called off before fueling, saving $400,000 in tanking costs. More than 1,400 Shuttle-processing jobs had been eliminated at the Kennedy Space Center in the previous three years and various Shuttle improvements had been deferred. (W Times, Nov 13/94)
A feature article described the newly opened simulated space mission inside the Brownsburg, Indiana, Challenger Learning Center. It was one of 26 such centers across the country opened by the Challenger Center for Space Science Education. The program was founded by families of the Challenger crew. (Indianapolis Star, Nov 13/94)
Space Shuttle Endeavour passed over four U.S. sites-forests in Michigan and North Carolina, waterways in Oklahoma, and desert lands in California-twice a day on its flight, allowing much data to be collected. Such data were now being studied as regarded Michigan's Upper Peninsula and specifically, the Hiawatha National Forest. They would provide insights as to how forests were affected by timber-cutting, development, and global warming. (Kalamazoo Gazette, Nov 13/94; Grand Rapids Press, Nov 14/94)
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