Oct 5 1992
From The Space Library
NASA's funding remained flat as congressional appropriations committees completed work on NASA's 1993 budget. Although some high-profile programs such as the Space Station and a constellation of environmental monitoring satellites emerged virtually unscathed, newer or less visible efforts suffered setbacks. An advanced series of tracking satellites, robotic missions to the Moon, and a new generation of launchers were among the efforts put on hold for at least the next year. Spending on space research and technology was reduced by 13 percent. (Space News, Oct 5-11/92)
NASA announced that asteroid Toutatis would pass within 2.2 million miles of Earth on October 8, an unusually close encounter. Toutatis is about two miles in diameter and passes Earth every four years, making it one of the largest objects to cross Earth's orbit on a regular basis. In 2004 Toutatis would pass within one million miles of Earth. (NASA Release 92-164; UPI Oct 5/92)
Directors of the U.S. and Russian space agencies announced plans in Moscow to put a Russian cosmonaut on the Space Shuttle in November 1993 and to fly an American astronaut on a Soyuz rocket to the Mir Space Station in 1995. In addition to the projects involving cosmonauts and astronauts working together in space, plans were announced to put American instruments on hoard an unmanned Russian scientific flight to Mars in 1994. (NASA Release 92-165; UPI Oct 5/92; NY Times, Oct 6/95; W Times, Oct 6/92; W Post, Oct 6/92; The Sun; Oct 6/92; Av Wk, Oct 12/92; SCM, Oct 14/92)
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