Aug 23 1991
From The Space Library
Space News for this day. (1MB PDF)
NASA announced crew members for eight future Space Shuttle missions, of which the first, a Microgravity Laboratory mission, is scheduled for May 1992. (NASA Release 91-137; AP, Aug 23/91; UPI, Aug 23/91; LA Times, Aug 24/91; Av Wk, Aug 26/91)
NASA Administrator Richard H. Truly announced the selection of General Spence M. Armstrong, USAF (Retired), for the newly established position of Associate Administrator for Human Resources and Education. (NASA Release 91-138)
Concurrently, NASA Administrator Richard H. Truly announced the appointment of Michael D. Griffin for the new position of Associate Administrator for Exploration. (NASA Release 91-139; SP News, Aug 26-Sep 8/91)
NASA program scientist Edward Weiler said in a telephone interview with UPI that an emergency Shuttle mission to replace faulty gyroscopes and solar panels aboard the Hubble Space Telescope was not needed before a flight already set for 1993 or early 1994. As a precaution, however, NASA engineers were perfecting computer control software that would stabilize the telescope if all its gyroscopes were to fail, until a Shuttle repair mission were mounted. (UPI, Aug 23/91)
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