Oct 15 1993
From The Space Library
Scientists at NASA's Ames Research Center, Moffett Field, California, and the Joint Astronomy Centre, Hilo, Hawaii, discovered an unexpected type of molecule in the ices of a star-forming cloud. The scientists have detected large amounts of molecular hydrogen frozen into the ice grains in a dense molecular cloud in Rho Ophiuchus. Rho Ophiuchus is known as a stellar nursery, a region in the Milky Way Galaxy where new stars are being formed. (NASA Release 93-187)
NASA announced that the IC2 Institute, Austin, Texas, had appointed John S. Gee as the director of the Ames Technology Commercialization Center (ATCC) located in Sunnyvale, California. The IC2 Institute, a unit of the University of Texas, was contracted by NASA's Office of Advanced Concepts Technology, Washington, DC, to assist NASA Centers in the transfer of technology to the private sector. (NASA Release 93-185)
The NASA Office of Advanced Concepts and Technology selected 52 proposals for negotiations leading to Phase A awards to develop flight experiments in response to the 1992 In-Space Technology Experiments Program (IN-TEP) Announcement of Opportunity. For the 1992 program, proposals were solicited in eight different technology areas: space communications; cryo fluid handling; human support; in-space construction, repair, and maintenance; space materials, coatings, and environmental effects; space power, science sensor, and sensor cooling; and vibration isolation. (NASA Release 93-186)
NASA Administrator Daniel S. Goldin told Congress that the United States could save $3.5 billion by building the Space Station with the Russians. He also testified that a joint Space Station could be finished and inhabited by U.S. astronauts by April 2001, two years earlier than without Russian cooperation. (WSJ, Oct 15/93; Huntsville Times, Oct 15/93)
A report by the General Accounting Office found that for years NASA had disregarded or misunderstood property regulations. Under Federal regulations, contractors doing business with the government must provide their own equipment unless their reasons are approved by the agency signing the contract. NASA, however, rarely applied these tough regulations to its contractors, so that businesses have billions of dollars of taxpayer-purchased property. (Fla Today, Oct 15/93, Oct 18/93)
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