Sep 15 1994
From The Space Library
NASA announced that it had begun resurfacing the runway at the Kennedy Space Center, which would improve the wear on Shuttle tires and potentially lead to an expansion of the Return to Launch Site landing crosswind flight rule beyond the present constraint of 15 knots. (NASA Release 94-153)
An August 17 letter by David Margolis, associate deputy attorney general, confirmed that the FBI's Office of Professional Responsibility was investigating allegations concerning the Justice Department's "investigative and prosecutive functions" in the Houston-based Operation Lightning Strike involving NASA and its contractors. (UP, Sep 15/94; H Chron, Sep 15/94; H Post, Sep 15/94)
The Congressional Black Caucus Foundation, Inc. held a legislative conference in Washington, DC, at which NASA had the largest government career recruiting exhibit of any agency. NASA's Associate Administrator for Equal Opportunity Programs, Yvonne B. Freeman, said that NASA was now aggressively recruiting future black scientists as early as elementary school and paying for their training. Of the $740 million NASA spent on education each year, $70 million now went to Historically Black Colleges and Universities, up from $6 million two years previously. Representative Louis Stokes, Democrat from Ohio, who formerly criticized NASA for doing little to hire blacks or enter into con-tracts with black companies, said NASA Administrator Daniel S. Goldin had really made a difference in NASA's programs. Stokes's appropriations subcommittee was responsible for NASA funding. (Plain Dealer, Sep 16/94)
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