Feb 23 1994
From The Space Library
A NASA engineering team succeeded in lifting the endangered Compton Gamma-Ray Observatory to a safe orbit after its propulsion system malfunctioned. NASA said the reboost had extended the mission life of the observatory by five years, thus meeting its original two-to-eight-year life span-it was launched on April 5, 1991. (CSM, Feb 23/94)
NASA announced the selection of astronaut Kenneth D. Cameron to man-age NASA operational activities at Star City, Russia, and at the Russian control center at Kaliningrad. (NASA Release 94-27)
NASA's Office of Space Communications announced the installation of a Video Teleconference System facility at Brown University, Providence, Rhode Island, to expand video teleconferencing coverage to Russia. The installation supplemented the university's existing video teleconferencing capabilities with the Russian Institute of Space Research in Moscow. The new facility allowed NASA scientists and engineers to work directly with Soviet researchers. (NASA Release 94-28)
Claude Amaud, professor of medicine at the University of California, San Francisco, in a paper presented to the national meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, stated that his research indicated that the bone-weakening process experienced by astronauts in space as a result of extended weightlessness might be corrected with common drugs that prevented calcium loss. (AP, Feb 23/94; UP, Feb 23/94; USA Today, Feb 24/94; UPI, Feb 28/94)
The seven astronauts who repaired the Hubble Space Telescope in December 1993 were designated recipients of the Freedom Forum's Free Spirit Award. In their names, $250,000 was to be donated to a scholarship fund for dependents of NASA employees. The award ceremony occurred on March 28. (AP, Feb 23/94; AP, Mar 28/94; UP, Mar 28/94; USA Today, Mar 29/94)
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