Apr 30 1993
From The Space Library
The Wall Street Journal reported that a cable-television venture by NASA was becoming very popular among space buffs nationwide. Called NASA Select, the channel provides a variety of coverage, ranging from routine news briefings on space issues to reports on the current Columbia space mission. Viewers said that they were especially excited by the spectacular vistas beamed down from space. The channel airs as a public service on local cable-TV systems Monday through Friday from noon until 4 a.m. (WSJ, Apr 30/93; C Trib, May 2/93)
The media reported that Columbia's astronauts were attempting to find a slight air leak that NASA said posed no danger to the crew. The leak had been detected the previous evening. According to NASA sources, the leak would not affect the duration of the space mission. (AP, Apr 30/93)
Writing in the Washington Post, columnist Michael Schrage reported that physicist John H. Gibbons, White House science and technology policy advisor, was facing some tough choices. He soon had to decide whether science and technology would play a leadership role in the Clinton administration's economic agenda or merely a supporting one. That choice appeared to be as yet unmade. (W Post, Apr 30/93)
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