May 24 1993
From The Space Library
The ITAR-Tass news agency announced that a cargo ship loaded with food, water, fuel, and equipment had docked with the orbiting Space Station Mir. The cargo ship also delivered a landing capsule to the two Mir astronauts, who had been aboard the Mir for four months. (AP, May 24/93)
Aviation Week & Space Technology reported that a NASA advisory panel had found that the Hubble Space Telescope would have had even more component failure in orbit if the launch had not slipped from 1986 to 1990 as a result of the Challenger accident. The delay enabled technicians to do additional testing that revealed suspect parts. (Av Wk, May 24/93)
The AP reported that the nonprofit group Satellite, based in Cambridge, Massachusetts, last year had launched a low-orbiting satellite that "talks" to the Internet and coordinates the Healthnet message-relay service connected with the satellite. The service makes it possible for remote regions of the world to receive much-needed medical advice. (AP, May 24/93)
NASA announced that a NASA F/A-18, modified to test the newest and most advanced system technologies, made its first research flight on May 21 at NASA's Ames-Dryden Flight Research Facility, Edwards, California. The Systems Research Aircraft (SRA) was evaluating technologies that would benefit both civilian and military aircraft. (NASA Release 93-95; Mojave Desert News, May 27/93)
A commentary in the Houston Chronicle, applauded NASA's decision to financially penalize contractors who delivered defective products, did not meet schedules, or continually exceeded cost estimates. NASA's proposed procurement reforms would do away with the "cost-plus" contracts under which the government typically negotiated costs as a project moved along, rather than seeking bids and holding contractors to them. (H Chron, May 24/93)
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