Jul 22 1993
From The Space Library
Three cosmonauts, including one French person, landed in the Central Asian republic of Kazakhstan after a successful mission aboard the Russian Space Station Mir. The 22-day Russian-French mission was launched from the Baikonur cosmodrome in Kazakhstan on July 1 onboard a Soyuz TM-17 craft and two days later docked with Mir. (UPI, Jul 22/93; AP, Jul 22/93)
NASA announced that the Agency, at the request of the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA), had flown specialized sensors mounted in an airplane over portions of the midwestern states in an effort to gather information on the flood-damaged Midwest. FEMA planned to use the collected images to assist in charting flood-damaged areas, to boost the emergency management Agency's computer data base on the region, and to update flood insurance maps. (NASA Release 93-134)
NASA said that it would try again Saturday morning, November 24, to launch the Space Shuttle Discovery on a nine-day flight. The mission was to feature two satellite releases, the retrieval of one of those satellites, and a spacewalk to test tools needed for the Hubble Space Telescope repair mission planned for the winter. ( AP, Jul 22/93; RTW, Jul 22/93; NY Times, Jul 24/93)
David Lux, project manager for the SR-71 "Blackbird" spy plane, which crisscrossed the globe on cold war spy missions, said that the plane had a new job helping NASA generate a database to be used by people who do aircraft design. He said that Blackbird would soon take to the skies to see if it were possible to eliminate or reduce sonic booms for future high-speed airliners. (UPI, Jul 25/93)
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