Sep 27 1989
From The Space Library
NASA announced it had granted a $1.3 billion extension of the contract to Lockheed Corporation, Calabasas, California, to continue Space Shuttle processing operations for three more years. (NASA Release, Sep 27/89; AP, Sep 26/89; W Post, Sep 27/89)
During a visit by Soviet journalists to the Plesetsk Space Center, the Soviet government revealed that a launch pad explosion of a Vostok rocket had killed 50 people in 1980. The Soviet government also revealed that a Cosmos rock-et had also exploded on the launch pad in 1973, killing nine technicians and soldiers. (FBIS-Sov-89-185, Sep 26/89; NY Times, Sep 28/89; W Times, Sep 28/89; P Inq, Sep 28/89)
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