Jul 23 1991
From The Space Library
NASA announced that its In-Space Technology Experiments Program would pass a major milestone when the Tank Pressure Control Experiment would go into orbit aboard Atlantis. Transfer and control of very cold (cryogenic) fluids in microgravity is critical to plans for several future U.S. space efforts. This experiment was to demonstrate how cryogenic storage tank pressures could be controlled. (NASA Release 91-116)
Members of NASA's Project Viking, the group that put the first two space-ships on Mars 15 years previously, gathered at the Langley Research Center to commemorate that event on July 20, according to the Washington Times. (W Times, Jul 23/91)
NASA announced the selection of Cortez III Service Corporation, Alamogordo, New Mexico, to provide institutional and programmatic support services for Space Station Freedom Program and Operations Office, Reston, Virginia. (NASA Release C91-cc)
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