Sep 1 1993
From The Space Library
NASA Administrator Daniel S. Goldin announced the establishment of a study team at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, California, to explore possibilities for a return mission to Mars to recover some of the scientific objectives of the Mars Observer mission, if communications with that spacecraft could not he reestablished. (NASA Release 93-157; UPI, Sep 1/93; AP, Sep 1/93)
Rocketdyne, the Canoga Park unit of Rockwell International, was blamed for the last-minute blastoff delay of Space Shuttle Discovery. The shutdown was traced to a faulty fuel sensor in one of Discovery's engines, built by Rocketdyne. This was not the first time that Rocketdyne had been blamed for a day. The company makes the Shuttle's main engines, which in 1993 caused two last-minute aborted launches. They have also caused at least two more launch delays involving the Columbia and Endeavour Space Shuttles. (LA Times, Sep 1/93)
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