Feb 7 1983
From The Space Library
In a White House speech to persons from the aviation, government, diplomatic, military, and business areas, President Reagan hailed 200 years of manned flight and announced a decision to "keep the shuttle production lines intact" to "preserve the option of building the fifth shuttle" and ad-vantage of "the tremendous opportunities that lie ahead" (Text, Feb. 7/83)
Senior NASA managers, headed by Lt. Gen. James A. Abrahamson, associate administrator for space flight, had met with contractors and "cleared the way" for returning the tracking and data-relay satellite to KSC's launch pad in preparation for the first launch of Challenger, the agency said.
Results of the second flight-readiness firing led to a decision not to conduct a third firing before launching Challenger early in March. The #1 engine had been removed for exchange with the flight spare. The spare would have the high-pressure pump from the #1 engine installed before the change took place. (NASA Release 83-16)
Tass reported that the fuel core for the nuclear-powered Cosmos 1402 entered the atmosphere over the Atlantic at 1:56 p.m. Moscow time and "burned up entirely." Data from "competent Soviet organizations tracking the flight" said the Sputnik "totally ceased its existence." (FBIS, Tass in English, Feb 7/83)
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