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[[Media:92-09-18.pdf|Space News for this day. (1MB PDF)]] Astronauts aboard the [[Space Shuttle]] [[Endeavour]] began testing a system to deliver intravenous fluids in weightlessness, a step toward meeting the possible medical needs of astronauts who stay in space long-term. (AP Sept 18/92) Dick Weinstein, manager of engineering standards and practices for NASA, said NASA was predominantly non-metric and likely to stay that way in view of a September 30, 1992, deadline for the United States to convert to the metric system. Weinstein predicted, however, that by 1995 NASA would be well into the conversion process. (Washington Technology, Sept 10/92) The Pentagon, bowing to congressional pressure, revealed the existence of the super-secret agency that buys and operates the Nation's spy satellites and its other airborne espionage systems. The National Reconnaissance Office's mission is to ensure that the United States has the technology and spaceborne and airborne assets needed to acquire intelligence worldwide, according to the Pentagon. (P Inq, Sept 1992; C Trib, Sept 18/92) NASA announced signature of a $59.3 million supplemental agreement with [[Rockwell International]]'s Space Systems Divison for the design, development, test, and evaluation of a new system to update [[Space Shuttle]] orbiter cockpit displays. (NASA Release C92-15) *[[August 1992|August]] *[[September 1992|September]] [[Sep 1 1992|1]] [[Sep 2 1992|2]] [[Sep 3 1992|3]] [[Sep 4 1992|4]] [[Sep 5 1992|5]] [[Sep 6 1992|6]] [[Sep 7 1992|7]] [[Sep 8 1992|8]] [[Sep 9 1992|9]] [[Sep 10 1992|10]] [[Sep 11 1992|11]] [[Sep 12 1992|12]] [[Sep 13 1992|13]] [[Sep 14 1992|14]] [[Sep 15 1992|15]] [[Sep 16 1992|16]] [[Sep 17 1992|17]] [[Sep 18 1992|18]] [[Sep 19 1992|19]] [[Sep 20 1992|20]] [[Sep 21 1992|21]] [[Sep 22 1992|22]] [[Sep 23 1992|23]] [[Sep 24 1992|24]] [[Sep 25 1992|25]] [[Sep 26 1992|26]] [[Sep 27 1992|27]] [[Sep 28 1992|28]] [[Sep 29 1992|29]] [[Sep 30 1992|30]] *[[October 1992|October]]

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