Jun 25 1991
From The Space Library
NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, Maryland, announced its selection of Fairchild Space, Germantown, Maryland, for a contract to provide engineering support services for the Space Technology Division. (NASA Release C91-w)
NASA announced that preliminary data from its Total Ozone Mapping Spectrometer, an instrument on the Nimbus-7 satellite, indicated that a 4,800-mile-long cloud of sulfur dioxide was spread across the tropical 9o Northern Hemisphere from the major eruption of Mount Pinatubo volcano in the Philippines. (NASA Release 91-96; UPI, Jun 26/91)
The media reported the successful efforts of two Soviet cosmonauts outside the Mir Space Station to replace a damaged antenna. (AP, Jun 25/91; UPI, Jun 25/91)
According to the media, engineers waited out the storm at Cape Canaveral and then hauled Shuttle Atlantis to its launch pad. The Shuttle was scheduled to launch a Tracking and Data Relay Satellite to replace the Indian Ocean relay station. (UPI, Jun 25/91; NY Times, Jun 26/91; W Times, June 26/91; USA Today, Jun 26/91; C Trin, Jun 26/91)
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