Aug 9 1993
From The Space Library
NASA ground crews began final preparations to launch the Space Shuttle Discovery on a satellite delivery mission. The liftoff was scheduled for August 12. Discovery was to carry two satellites. Five astronauts were scheduled to put one satellite in orbit to conduct advanced communications experiments. The other, a telescope, was to he let out of the cargo hay for several days of celestial observations, then captured and returned to Earth. (RTW, Aug 9/93; AP, Aug 9/93, Aug 10/93; W Post, Aug 10/93; UPI, Aug 8/93)
Sotheby's auction house announced that it had agreed to sell more than 200 items from the Soviet space program, including the first Moon rock fragments ever to go up for sale. The items were being sold by family members of the top participants as well as the state factories that produced the space suits and capsules being offered for sale. The Russian government was not involved in the sale. (RTW, August 9/93; AP, Aug 11/93)
NASA announced that researchers at the NASA Lewis Research Center, Cleveland, Ohio, had developed a new and unique group of ceramic processing chemicals that might revolutionize the ceramic industry. The new processing chemicals might lead to high purity ceramic products that could better withstand temperatures over 2102 degrees F (1200 degrees Celsius). (NASA Release 93-143)
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