Jan 14 1994
From The Space Library
NASA Administrator Daniel S. Goldin declared that, after five weeks of engineering checkout, optical alignment, and instrument calibration, the Shuttle mission to repair the Hubble Space Telescope (HST) was fully successful. He spoke at a press conference at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, Maryland, along with Dr. John H. Gibbons, presidential assistant for science and technology, and Senator Barbara A. Mikulski, chair of the Appropriations Subcommittee on VA, HUD, and Independent Agencies (including NASA), who unveiled two new HST pictures. The repairs have extended astronomers' view across the universe by 10 times and enlarged the visible volume of space by 1,000 times. (NASA Release 94-7; W Times, Jan 14/94; B Sun, Jan 14/94; P Inq, Jan 14/94; WSJ, Jan 14/94; C Trib, Jan 13/94; NY Times, Jan 14/94; W Post, Jan 14/94; LA Times, Jan 14/94; Def Daily, Jan 14/94; AP, Jan 14/94; Reuters, Jan 13/94; UPI, Jan 13/94, USA Today, Jan 14/94; Htsvl Times, Jan 16/94; Time, Jan 24/94)
NASA Administrator Daniel S. Goldin announced the appointment of Brigadier General Elmer T. Brooks, USAF (Retired), as Deputy Associate Administrator for NASA's Office of Space Communications (OSC) at NASA Headquarters. Charles Force, Associate Administrator for Space Communications, commented on the problems facing NASA's use of telecommunications technologies with reduced funding. OSC was responsible for planning, development, and operation of NASA's worldwide communications, telemetry, and data acquisition activities. (NASA Release 94-9)
The National Research Council (NRC) warned in a third and final report to NASA that its Earth Observing System (EOS) would not meet users' needs without major revisions in the $2.6 billion EOS Data and Information System (EOSDIS) that was to handle, store, and distribute EOS data. An evolutionary system like EOSDIS must he open and extendable. The centralized nature of the EOSDIS Core System (ECS) being built was unresponsive to user needs and needed major revisions in its architecture, leadership, and user empowerment. Specifically, users would not be able to automatically combine data from different sensors or alter data products to meet particular needs. (Def Daily, Jan 14/94; Federal Computer Week, Jan 24/94)
Russian cosmonauts Vasily Tsibliyev and Alexander A. Serebrov on the Soyuz TM-17 landed safely and without incident after six months in the Mir station, although the module had collided with Mir before descent. They were replaced by two cosmonauts, including Valery Polyakov, due to stay a record-breaking 14 months in space, to break the record 366 days set by Vladimir G. Titov and Musa Manarov in 1988-1989. (Reuters, Jan 14/94)
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