May 4 1993
From The Space Library
The Houston Post reported that the two committees charged with redesigning Space Station Freedom were behind schedule. The two groups, a technical redesign team mainly made up of NASA employees and a team of out-side experts, had been faced with much infighting at NASA and a barrage of criticism from Congress and the foreign countries participating in the Space Station project. NASA Administrator Daniel S. Goldin asserted that the work would be finished on time. (H Post, May 4/93; AV Wk, May 3/93; H Chronicle, May 6/93)
The Washington Times reported that a group of five investors, headed by retired Navy Admiral Thomas H. Moorer, had signed a joint venture agreement with Russia's Association for the Conversion of Submarine-Launched Ballistic Missiles. The group planned to use Russian missiles to put satellites into low orbits to transmit telephone calls or computer data or carry out scientific experiments. (W Times, May 4/93)
NASA reported that it had lost all contact with Shuttle Columbia for 80 minutes on May 4 because of an erroneous computer command sent to the Shuttle. The blackout led to the loss of some science data but did not cause any major problems; NASA officials, however, reviewed procedures for creating and sending commands to the Shuttle antenna.
During a briefing for Mayo clinic physicians, Bernard Hank Jr., a doctor-astronaut aboard Columbia, said that the human heart shifts inside the by in zero gravity. Space travel also leads to swollen faces, engorged eye blood vessels, and space motion sickness, said Harris. (UPI, May 4/93; RTW, May 4/93; W Times, May 5/93; USA Today, May 5/93; B Sun, May 5/93; NY Times, May 5/93)
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