Sep 14 1987
From The Space Library
NASA agreed with most of the findings and recommendations listed in the report by the National Research Council Committee on Space Station. Agency officials disagreed, however, with the findings that the deployment of the Space Station with the current Space Transportation System was risky. NASA also found the Committee's cost estimate for back-up hardware and test program enhancements to be too high. (NASA Release 87-135; NY Times, Sept 15/87; LA Times, Sept 15/87; H Post, Sept 15/87)
Officials at Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, Maryland, reported that NASA scientific satellites, the International Sun-Earth Explorers ISEE-1 and ISEE-2, were expected to reenter Earth's atmosphere two minutes apart on September 26, 1987. They were expected to create fireballs as they burned in the atmosphere over Brazil. The two orbiting spacecraft, launched on a single Delta rocket on October 22, 1977, for nearly 10 years studied fluctuations in plasma waves, the magnetic field, proton and electron density, cosmic rays, gamma ray bursts, and the solar wind in the near-Earth environment. (NASA Release 87-137)
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